Vocational degrees
Elaine Williams reports on a group of Oxford students for whom the academic challenge is not the only test they have to endure. Simon Uttley is one of the University of Oxford's growing number of...
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From academy to acropolis
Richard Clogg looks back at the life of Andreas Papandreou, the urbane Greek academic who became his country's populist prime minister. Andreas Papandreou currently lies in the Onasseion Heart...
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Students struggle to meet national targets
Disturbing projections which cast doubt on the viability of national education and training targets are revealed in a report out this week. The report raises serious questions concerning the revised...
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Three wise rectors
That the heads of three renowned universities effectively representing the great monotheistic religions should choose the period before Christmas to promote the role of academics in building peace...
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A message to Santa
Even the most magnanimous of Santas would be hard pressed to fill the stockings of the increasingly beleaguered scientific community. Thousands of contract researchers would like permanent jobs,...
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Hedonists pollute Christmas spirit
As an Asian Muslim who grew up in northern industrial England, I recall Christmas as a time of exciting films on television and nativity plays at school. I fantasised about being one of the three...
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Fair genes for fowl?
The debate is raging over whether genetically altered animals can be patented, Aisling Irwin reports. It is small and furry and designed to develop cancer. It is the oncomouse and it is unaware,...
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'Right wing' German history disowned
The editors of a multi-volume history of Germany are demanding that the publisher include a note in the latest volume on the National Socialist period distancing them from the views it expresses....
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'Secret' advice on real loan rate for students
A "secretive" and influential working group has advised the Government to charge students a real rate of interest on loans. The group, whose members include representatives from the Bank of England,...
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Stones may be meteor mapper
The first Stonehenge was built to observe terrifying meteor storms plaguing the skies - and may have been part of a massive cultural change as people united to cope, an astronomer has claimed. The...
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Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch
The THES called him "The vice chancellor who personified the new entrepreneurial spirit of higher education in the 1980s". But the latter part of this decade may find John Ashworth out of higher...
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The devil we may not know
(Photograph) - The devil we may not know: Robocop is not an image usually associated with Old Nick, but some detect in his high-tech protruberances vestiges of the talons and torments of medieval...
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Vcs fight on funding
Vice chancellors are to campaign for a change in the funding basis for higher education following the cuts imposed in the budget. Last week members of the main committee of the Committee of Vice...
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Banks like to Learn
Commercial banks and policy makers have expressed an interest a Learning Bank, an idea which is being considered by the Labour Party. A discussion paper which describes how a Learning Bank might...
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Gagging clause under fire
A confidentiality clause in the contract the Higher Education Funding Council for England offers to quality assessors is to be submitted as evidence to the Nolan inquiry on standards in public life....