When rank is a question of a balanced fruit diet
League tables have come under fire but they are hard to argue against. Mayfield University Consultants consider how to build the best Despite the criticisms, university league tables are...
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Hopes for cloning ban lift
British scientists are preparing to start medical research involving human embryo cells as soon as a government ban on therapeutic cloning is lifted. Teams from at least five universities working on...
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Hands-off approach for top research
Top-rated departments could opt out of the research assessment exercise under plans being considered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England at its annual conference held today in...
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High fees push student unions out of Busa
Student unions are being forced to pull out of Busa, the British Universities Sports Association, because overstretched budgets mean they cannot pay the affiliation fees and costs associated with the...
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Cambridge signs agreement with Turkey
As European Commission officials discuss Turkey's potential involvement in student mobility programmes as a step on the road to eventual membership, Cambridge University has signed a provisional...
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The calm apres Claude
The departure of an unloved minister should allow work on a packed French research agenda to progress more smoothly. Here, and overleaf, Jane Marshall reports from France. Suddenly Claude Allegre was...
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Cutting edge
Computational complexity can be a friend or an enemy. Either way, we need radical ideas to gain a better understanding of it. Computer science plays an increasingly important role in everyday life...
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At the centre of revolution in research
After three years at the head of France's premier research institution, Catherine Brechignac sees profound changes taking place. The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is regarded by some...
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My teacher's square and flat
Video-conferencing should be a valuable teaching tool. Philip Fine asks where it has gone wrong. At different points in the 90-minute class, one student was fast asleep and three others were having a...
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The model for the new millennium
Having decided that France needs more research-led universities, ministers did not have far to go for a protottype. In December Claude Allegre then minister for education and research, announced the...
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Spending on students falls
Cash per student fell from Pounds 5,335 in 1995-96 to a planned Pounds 4,700 in 2001-02, the annual report of the Department for Education and Employment reveals. It shows spending plans up to 2002....
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Universities should look further than grades
Universities should stop relying on A-level grades and rethink exactly what it is they want from prospective students, John Dunford, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, told the...
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Sir William to chair review of funding
(Photograph) - Sir William Taylor (below), president of the Society for Research in Higher Education and formerly acting vice-chancellor at Thames Valley University and vice-chancellor at Hull...
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NI institutions drop hard line on loans
Northern Ireland's two universities have climbed down after threatening action against hard-up undergraduates who have failed to repay emergency loans issued when the Student Loans Company failed to...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES... Labour MP Bill Rammell argued the government should not allow universities to charge top-up fees. Jonathan Pincus. George Gollin professor. of economicsUniversity of...