Percentage changes
Your table (THES, July 26) purported to show that there are no female professors of veterinary science in the United Kingdom. Claire Wathes has been professor of veterinary reproduction at The Royal...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. "How very strange," comments the Bulgarian sitting next to me on the flight to Sofia, bemused that anyone could be interested in the mechanics of university affairs. I have just explained the...
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VAT loss
Universities are likely to suffer from new Value Added Tax rules, says an adviser on the tax. John Kennedy, VAT partner at accountants Deloitte and Touche, predicts that they will lose out under a...
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Synthetic bone booster
A synthetic bone substitute that could be used to repair facial injuries is being developed at the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education. Made...
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Italians raise teacher status
The Italian government has decided that all future schoolteachers will have to have a degree and that secondary school teachers will also require two years of postgraduate training. Elementary school...
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Elite and proud of it
Dear Ron, It is now public knowledge that a number of major universities are considering forming a premier league and preparing themselves for the measures that would have to be taken to bring it...
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Low-paid pawns set to strike back
This is not the first time that university staff have been used as political pawns by government and university management but this year we have reached the pits of cynicism and manipulation with the...
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Tree circle
(Photograph) - Tree circle: seats at the Chiltern Open Air Museum designed by Joel Bugg, a second-year furniture design student at Buckinghamshire College
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Dogs and Englishmen
(Photograph) - Dogs and Englishmen: students from East Devon College film Dog Nation as part of their B Tech National Diploma in media studies on national identity. They decided man's best friend...
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Food bad, Russians awesome
Our correspondent and Olympic competitor Jon Wyatt survives a Korean onslaught and Atlanta's traffic gridlock. Sunday July 14 We finally arrive at our Olympic destination - nine months and 38 games...
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THES record sales
The circulation of The THES in January-June 1996 averaged ,374 copies per issue, 2.9 per cent more than for the same period in 1995 and the highest in the paper's history, according to figures just...
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Sailing Club Med
(Photograph) - Sailing Club Med: Training time for the Plymouth University crew that won this year's British Student Yachting Nationals and is competing in the Student World Cup off Marseilles in...
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Star thieves
Strathclyde Police are investigating the theft of equipment from Glasgow University. Extraordinary, really, that the academics failed to warn the police in advance, since according to Strathclyde's...
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Welsh rising
The number of students on higher education courses in Wales grew by 55 per cent from 1990/91 to 1993/94, figures published by the Welsh Office show. More than half of the 83,800 students in 1993/94...
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Universities face student boom
Higher education is set to change beyond all recognition as individual institutions struggle to greet 25 per cent more students in the next ten years, according to an Institute of Employment Studies...