Alarm over inequality
According to David Roberts of Heist (THES Letters, February 5), research indicates that students from lower income groups apply for a limited range of subjects in relatively few local institutions....
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Subject centres work
Your article on the higher education funding councils' proposed subject centres/networks dismissed the work of educational "do-gooders" as a largely failed method for promoting innovative teaching (...
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Appeal on standards
There has been growing concern about alleged dilution of academic standards in British universities and degree-awarding colleges. There is a need to find out if the allegation is well founded. Mantz...
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Mammon's imprint
Oxford University Press, which enjoys charitable trust status, is now in the hands of 'barbarians' who put profit before poetry, says Valentine Cunningham Oxford University Press is making a fool of...
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Why I...
...believe that intelligence can be measured by IQ tests and think universities could make use of them This is not even a question of belief. It is an empirical question: something that you can test...
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Kuala Lumpur
From this year, all pre-university students in Malaysia will have to sit a new English paper known as the Malaysian University English Test in an attempt to raise proficiency levels.
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Stockholm
Swedish prime minister Goran Persson and minister of education and science Thomas Ostros last month opened new universities at Orebro and Vaxsjo. Both have been upgraded from university college...
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Eye witness
Scientists are split over the death sentence awaiting Britain's 4,000 introduced North American ruddy ducks. Environment minister Michael Meacher has decided to allow a cull after considering a...
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Primary choice
A consortium of the University of North London, the Borough of Lambeth and the IT Learning Exchange, has been selected as an approved New Opportunities Fund to provide Information and Communications...
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Jewish college in drive for recruits
The London College of Jewish Studies is abandoning full-time degree courses for school-leavers in favour of a radical lifelong learning agenda that will open doors to older people with no formal...
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Don's Diary
Sunday New year's resolution: work less, relax more. But what else do you do if you wake at 7.00am on a winter Sunday and V is still asleep? I'm reading Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, which I have never...
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Glittering prizes
Businessman and philanthropist Sir Sigmund Sternberg, awarded last year's Templeton prize for progress in religion, has become the first non-head of state to receive the Rotary International Award of...
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Taking a title role
Just when you thought he was about to retire, Lord Dearing steps into the breach once more, with impeccable civil service tact, to take on all those difficult education jobs that no one else seems to...
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Florence
Students at Florence University have accused academics of "callousness" and "indifference" when they continued with oral examinations after a 23-year-old student died of heart failure while waiting...
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San Francisco
Eight students from minority background are suing the University of California at Berkeley for discriminatory admissions procedures. They were turned down despite very high scores on standardised...