Action on standards
Vice chancellors may move towards uniform degree standards when they meet in Belfast next week. The annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will receive an...
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Thesis
The THES Internet Service, THESIS, gets a new look today. The redesigned pages are intended both to provide a better service for our regular visitors and to attract new Internet users who have...
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Lib-Dems seek quality council with bite
A quality council with its own degree-awarding powers is one of the key proposals from the Liberal Democrat party's higher education working group. The group unveiled its consultation paper at this...
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Art's unhappy eaters
El Greco, painter of tall, thin figures and Holbein, painter of shorter, stockier ones, may have suffered from eating disorders which distorted their images of body shape, a psychologist suggested...
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Out of the melee into the fire?
A new current affairs magazine hits the streets next week. Simon Midgley canvassed opinion on its chances of success. Since the end of the second world war British journalism has been littered with...
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Quality row hides cuts aim
Alan Smithers rightly recognises (THES, September 15) that "home students admitted to full-time first-degree courses at British universities have a number of privileges conferred upon them",...
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Political groupies
The Reverend Moon's mass production of weddings had its equivalent at the recent American Political Science Association conference at Chicago. Adding to the mildly cattleyard feel implicit in any...
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Student challenges Essex over Net rights
An Essex student's human rights database on the Internet has been disrupted during a six-month dispute with his university over control of the information. The university's registrar admits that a...
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In-flight entertainment
(Photograph) - Members of Bosnia's Tuzla National Theatre and the Youth Theatre of Tuzla enjoy a break at Kingston University, which offered them accommodation after their aeroplane home was delayed...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service, THESIS, gets a new look next week. New World-Wide Web pages will bring graphic design and easy navigation to parts of THESIS which were previously text-only. The new look...
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Agriculture row
Members of lecturers' union Natfhe have voted for industrial action at Merrist Wood agricultural college, Surrey, over plans to make 12 lecturers redundant and appoint lower-paid practical...
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Rural recordings
Essex University is supporting an oral history project aimed at recording rural life in the county. Steve Hussey, Essex County Council Research Fellow in Local History at the university, is seeking...
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TEC success
Training and Enterprise Councils in England and Wales have made progress in securing jobs for trainees, according to Department of Education and Employment figures to be published this week. The...
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Bristol twosome
Governors of South Bristol College and Brunel College of Arts and Technology are considering a merger of the two institutions, it was announced this week. Union leaders do not expect a merger would...
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HIV link confirmed
A 15-year study of haemophiliacs by the Medical Research Council has proved conclusively that HIV is the cause of AIDS. MRC researchers believe the findings will silence critics who have argued that...