No more heroes any more?
Alan Shearer will probably be canonised in Newcastle if he scores the winner in the FA Cup Final tomorrow. But, as Richard Holt explains, working-class heroism is not what it used to be. Will...
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Saddam Hussein's city of the damned
Saddam Hussein's gassing of Halabja in 1988 was the worst chemical weapons attack ever. Geneticist Christine Gosden went there and was appalled by people's continuing agony and by how little we know...
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A Mickey Mouse degree?
Marya Burgess examines the persistent prejudice in journalism against media studies If you want to be a journalist, do a physics degree or do zoology," advises Tim Finch, the BBC's regional political...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * The number of UK enrolments increased by 2 per cent * The number of enrolments from European Union students increased by 6...
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Star crossed
Stellar confusion has also gripped the Tokyo office of the British Council, whose UK98 festival of all things British is now going strong. One of the UK organisations appearing in the list of events...
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Eye site
Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh, offers a guide to video for visually impaired learners, free on the web at www.ssc.mhie.ac.uk/ VI_Video/welcome.htm or on CD-Rom at Pounds 20 including...
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History in the measuring
Thirteen historians met last week to hammer out how to define standards in their subject. The 13 historians make up the subject's benchmarking group, which will contribute to the Quality Assurance...
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X marks the sweet spot for Web's future
Dan Brickley reports from Brisbane on the seventh World Wide Web conference The hassle-free future of communication via the Net became visibly clearer at the recent World Wide Web conference in...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges Two lecturers accused of "gross misconduct" claim they did not get a "fair trial" from college...
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Unions put pay top of the agenda
PAY will dominate the annual conferences of academic and academic-related staff unions that kick off this week. Unison Unison, which holds its conference for university and college members tomorrow,...
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Water work
(Photograph) - Jonathan Priddey, an applied sciences student at the University of Wolverhampton, examines some of the riverbed inhabitants on Shropshire's River Tern. Next year he will travel to...
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Sir Anthony Cleaver
Sir Anthony Cleaver, chairman of science and engineering innovation company AEA Technology, will take over as MRC chairman in October, when Sir David Plaistow retires.
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Data bank
Twelve African universities are now participating in the World Bank's African Virtual University project, receiving live lectures from Ireland and the United States.
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Signal achievement
The winners of a Pounds 60,000 student prize for designs using Texas Instruments digital signal processing components will be announced on Tuesday. Teams from Italy, Singapore and the United States...
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Midlands focus
(Photograph) - Birmingham and Aston Universities are planning a closer working relationship to capitalise on matching provision and develop expertise such as that of Aston's optometry and vision...