Language of closure
As ex-members of the School of English Language Education at Thames Valley University, we are appalled at its possible demise. Its research record in the area of applied linguistics is second to none...
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Errors with trials
Daniel Dennett's faith in the power of evolution goes too far ("Mind over matter", THES, April 30). In an article on "making mistakes" in How Things Are, he states his view even more explicitly: "...
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Higher spenders
I'm puzzled by one feature of your league tables (THES, April 23). You have Cambridge and Oxford well down on the list on expenditure on facilities, but seem not to have noticed that they are...
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Internal muddle of external role
The Association of University Teachers' complaint about payment for external examiners serves no one if, as appears from your report, it presents a disingenuous case bordering on dishonesty ("...
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Include us, don't make us over
Do not 'perfect' disabled people out of existence, just remove barriers, says Mike Oliver (right) As we approach the millennium, "inclusion" and "exclusion" are increasingly being used as a...
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Pay the going rate
Andrew Oswald will bet a nice lunch that academics will receive market-led wages within ten years My father used to drive to work in an old Rolls-Royce. The house looked out on a pretty part of the...
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University joins dollar-rich elite
One of five organisations around the world accredited last month to register domain names on the internet is the University of Melbourne's commercial information technology offshoot, Melbourne IT....
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Internet learning ready for priceless mark-up
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is seen as the "next thing after HTML" and interest in it is growing fast. Last week, 1,000 of the leaders in this new field met in Granada to discuss the next...
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Bulgarians flock to Vienna
VIENNA Bulgarians now constitute the largest number of foreign students at one of Austria's largest universities. Out of a total student population of 22,000 at the University of Economics in Vienna...
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French develop abbey habit
PARIS French students are discovering that the best way to improve their exam grades is to shut themselves away with monks. As the distractions of everyday life become harder to resist, a stay in an...
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Ireland acts over high-tech skills shortage
DUBLIN The Irish government has announced an initiative aimed at heading off potential skill shortages in the information technology sector. An additional 5,400 higher education places will be...
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Agony aunt
Q. My department is using more and more computer-aided learning and I detect that some of my students are becoming bored with pointing and clicking. How can this be avoided? A. Peter Murray-Rust,...
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Radcliffe melds with Harvard
BOSTON Radcliffe College, the 120-year-old sister school of Harvard University, will cease to exist as an independent institution under a long-anticipated merger plan revealed last week. The...
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Star Turn
Students at Glasgow University put a German intellectual slant on their sketches of disaster movies and Blind Date. Olga Wojtas sits in the audience at the end-of-term session Alison Phipps's German...
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Make a friend of a paperbin
When in doubt, throw it out. Phil Race gives some tips on how lecturers can cut their workload and the stress that plays havoc with their health "I'm already working a 70-hour week." "With these...