Why means-testing will end in tears
IF THE Government is intent on charging fees, means-testing loans and protecting the "poorest" students then it must seriously consider how it determines who are the poorest. The Mandatory Awards...
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Confirmed bachelors
IN RESPONSE to your article on course advertising by German universities, in particular the TU Dresden, where the introduction of bachelor's degrees by TU Dresden from next semester is described as...
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Double trouble
(Photograph) - After Ian McKellan's Richard III and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, comes Betty and Bobby's Macbeth. Queen Margaret College drama students Claire Knight and Rozlyn Sheridan play Betty and...
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Boycotted bank bids for debt
A BANK boycotted by students for being "unethical" is among those bidding to buy the student debt. Student unions have been advising their members not to use Midland Bank for the past six years,...
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Death, fire, closure
A Kenyan university is facing indefinite closure after a nearby trading centre was burnt down by students angered by the mysterious death of a colleague. Vice chancellor Japheth Kiptoon shut down...
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Keep tuition free and tax industry
While researchers rejoice over Dearing there are those who believe that tuition should remain free and that part-time students deserve more support AS a former headteacher of an inner city...
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Don's diary
Wednesday Work has been pretty heavy for the past few weeks, so it feels self-indulgent to leave at 5pm, but we have a football match against civil engineering, which kicks off at 5.30. With a minute...
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How will we feel the morning after?
YOU COULD be forgiven for thinking, the way the chatterati are talking, that constitutions live in capital cities. Ours, it seems, is probably going to be devolved from Westminster to Edinburgh,...
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Nordic nadir for nepotism
A BOOK published in Denmark earlier this year, The World's Best Educational System (Verdens bedste uddanelsessytem: Copenhagen: Fremad, 1997), takes aim at the Danes' long-held belief in the...
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Sacked 'racist' is to appeal
Edinburgh University's self-declared "scientific racist" Christopher Brand, sacked last week after being found guilty by a university tribunal of gross misconduct, says he plans to appeal. Psychology...
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Enter the thinking thug
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic A NEW wave of Hollywood films seems to be rejecting stereotypical male violence in favour of cool reflection, a...
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Beaten by mud, inglorious mud
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic TENS OF thousands of men died in the first world war because commanders did not know the importance of battlefield...
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Factfile
*There are 370,119 post-graduate students in the United Kingdom *25.4 percent (94,010) of postgraduate students were studying for research degrees *74.6 per centof postgraduates were studying for a...
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THES boosts circulation to record high
THE circulation of The THES for January to June 1997 averaged 28,861 copies a week, 5.4 per cent ahead of the same period in 1996 and an all-time record, according to the the Audit Bureau of...
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Look back at anger?
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic DRUGS to control levels of human aggression and violence could soon be developed, say researchers from King's College...