Eternal students face mortality
Hamburg. Germany's notorious eternal students, in extreme cases enrolled at university for up to 20 years, could face expensive bills for study fees in future if politicians in the state of Baden-...
Search
-
-
Design for the computer age
It is obviously the silly season! Two sentences by Lord Beloff about media studies (Elite and proud of it, THES, August 9) and we are subjected to discussions about the state of the students' bowels...
-
Grief is carved in stone
Sandra Gilbert discovered the anguish behind the bland term 'medical malpractice' when her husband died after a routine operation. But grief, she found, could be both muse and stone companion....
-
College launches 'bully' probe
Governors at one of England's fastest-growing further education colleges are to conduct an independent survey into the running of the college following allegations of bullying. A study by lecturers'...
-
Green killer
(Photograph) - Green killer: Philip Howse, joint head of the centre for bio-electrostatics at Southampton University, shows off his environmentally-friendly cockroach trap, which uses an...
-
Engineer conversion courses are a fillip
Conversion courses developed to address the perennial worry of recruitment to engineering degrees have eased the problem, says a report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The one-...
-
Top Scots cash in
Seven Scottish universities are to share almost Pounds 240,000 following "excellent" ratings in the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's latest quality assessment. There were seven excellents...
-
Green light for A level entrance to Italian system
Milan. For the first time in more than half a century, British A levels can be used by Italian students as entrance qualifications to the country's universities. The move by the Italian ministry of...
-
Southampton Review
In The THES, July 26, under the heading "Southampton Review" you stated . . . "following votes of no confidence from staff headed by Geoffrey Hall" . . . This is totally untrue. I have in fact been...
-
Mature policy pays dividends
Richard Disney argues that the UK, unlike its international competitors, is not facing a crisis from an ageing population thanks to radical cutbacks in social security provision and the increasing...
-
Astronomers lose vital eye in the sky
A prolific astronomical satellite, which was launched on a three-year mission in 1978 but is still active, is to be shut down in six weeks' time because of funding problems. The International...
-
Oxbridge links up with Met office and Oxheading
Computer-generated weather forecasts could become more accurate thanks to an initiative just launched by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in collaboration with the Meteorological Office....
-
NUS calls for reform of entrance procedures
The National Union of Students has called for reform of the university applications and admissions system amid a mad scramble for places after this year's A-level results. The NUS believes that the...
-
Computer aids French killer hunt
The world's most advanced translating computer, designed by scientists at Cambridge and Edinburgh, has been hired to speed up the police investigation into the rape and murder of Cornish schoolgirl...
-
Rome set for 'foreigners' deal
Pisa. The new Italian government is preparing to do a deal with foreign mother-tongue lecturers and put an end to their ten-year battle against discrimination. Sources in the ministry of employment...