US presses enjoy tax freedom
Among university presses in the United States, Yale University Press operates very like the model adopted byCUP and OUP. YUP, founded in 1908, is a department of the university and enjoys tax...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Linda McGowan argued that government policy is deterring mature students from applying to university April Marshall, University of Plymouth Not only did I fail to qualify for...
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On the move
Lord Dearing, who chaired the 1997 national committee of inquiry into higher education, has been appointed chairman of the University for Industry. Tony Greener, chairman of international food and...
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Chris Woodhead
Rock climbing and running are the favoured recreations of Chris Woodhead, chief inspector of schools and dedicated risk-taker. Something of a rebel as a schoolboy, his bad behaviour brought him...
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Harvard dons deny insider trading
Boston United States government prosecutors are investigating charges that two Harvard University economists, involved in a Harvard-sponsored effort to help Russia adapt to capitalism, profited from...
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Interest in British history wanes
Cambridge University Press is cutting the number of monographs it publishes because of a fall in demand from buyers. Richard Fisher, publishing development director of the CUP, said it expected its...
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Wandering with intent
The popular perception of the homeless as aimless wanderers or vagrants is unfounded, says research from Sussex University. Jon May, lecturer in geography at the university's school of cultural and...
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Balloon laser deployed to detect global warming
A balloon-borne laser is about to make a 30-day flight in the battle against global warming. The infrared spectrometer, jointly developed by Cambridge and Strathclyde universities and the National...
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Riddle of the peripatetic fiftysomething
Luke Desforges, a lecturer in the institute of geography and earth sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, has been trying to understand what possesses people in their fifties to venture...
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Your day of judgement
Higher education is soon to get its first official league tables. Alison Goddard looks at what performance indicators are under consideration. The first official league tables for universities are...
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Scots link up in learning hub
Glasgow and Paisley universities have established a link to create a "hub of learning" in Dumfries using Pounds 1.8 million from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's strategic change grant...
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Napier University and Dundee College
Napier University and Dundee College have signed an agreement allowing students taking higher national certificate and diploma courses to progress smoothly to degree programmes. Napier's principal,...
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Teacher training to stay under ofsted
Teacher training in universities must continue to come under schools' inspectorate Ofsted, its chief Chris Woodhead said this week at the launch of his annual report. Mr Woodhead said that there were...
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Footballing heroes
(Photograph) - Footballing heroes: Colin Yates, a senior technician in visual arts at the University of Coventry, with a portrait from his series on the lives of black footballers. 'Many of us think...
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Cult-watch centre faces closure
A unique centre for the study of religious cults based at the London School of Economics may be forced to close due to a lack of money, writes Alan Thomson. The Information Network Focus on Religious...