Stirk gang
Sideswipe no 98 is Robert Burns' acid view of the Scottish universities, communicated in his Epistle to J. Lapraik (1785): "A set o'dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes; They...
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Surgery psychos
Health secretary Virginia Bottomley last week told psychiatrists that they would "be surprised how many people with psychotic symptoms come to see their MPs". Years ago she was pestered by a...
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Gaelic groupies
Move over, black, disabled lesbians -- or at least stand well back. Dundee University appears to have cornered the market in minorities with a sign in its foyer, "Ladies Gaelic Football Team''.
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Patently absurd
The wacky patent application competition 1994, held by Chemistry & Industry magazine, yields one UK winner who has proposed a waterproof bird-feeder. Trevor Rowston of Nottingham has designed...
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Spot the Ball
The arrival last autumn of one of academic life's more prominent football enthusiasts, Howard Newby, as vice chancellor of Southampton University, seems to be having an effect on the local soccer...
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Sexuality Slob
Bad news for romantics in the latest newsletter from Rotterdam's Erasmus University. The International Academy of Sex Research has a new president, the university's professor of the pathophysiology...
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Firms feel graduate pinch
A fifth of top companies have reported a serious recruitment shortfall in spite of the rising number of graduates leaving higher education, according to a new survey by the Association of Graduate...
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Glasgow colleges spread street safety message
The stereotype of Glasgow as a city of marauding razor gangs may be outmoded, but its eight city centre universities and colleges have joined forces with the police to ensure that it is safer for...
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Public is prepared to pay for tuition
Plans for making students from well-off families contribute towards the cost of higher education need not necessarily be a vote loser, a MORI poll commissioned by The THES has shown. Fears of...
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Colleges dismiss grim closure forecasts
The Association for Colleges has dismissed gloomy predictions that one in five colleges could close within three years as a "cynical business exercise". Management consultants KPMG said last week...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Croydon schoolteacher who was twice prosecuted for obscenity: "But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence....
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Speaking Volumes: James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar
Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...
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A brave new classical world
The Founders and the Classics:
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A dose of the Celtic medicine men
The Druids
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Bloody knackered, or just extremely tired?
Multilingualism