Training coup bid
THE GENERAL Teaching Council will today make a bid to control the training of university academics in a move which is already meeting widespread resistance in higher education, writes Alison Utley....
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Italy targets lazy professori
ITALIAN professori are for the first time facing the sack for absenteeism and low productivity. The dismissal of 30 doctors teaching at Milan University's medical school has been demanded by the head...
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Charity eschews tobacco cash
CAMBRIDGE University, which was last year condemned by students for accepting Pounds 1.5 million from British American Tobacco for a chair in international relations, has welcomed an initiative by a...
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Last chance for autonomy?
Dearing on FE franchising: committee has right idea It was recognised universally that the most important recommendations of the Dearing report would be on funding but many commentators felt its...
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Making history
The most important message from Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (THES, October 10) is that of the responsibility we academics owe to our students. It is essential that we openly recognise that different...
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The answer for Oxbridge
Andrew Adonis's diagnosis (THES, October 10) of the influence of Oxbridge is sound but does not go far enough. No other country has two universities which are so uniquely different from the rest of...
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Shape for knowledge
MARTHA Nussbaum provides a welcome challenge to the vocational trend in higher education (THES, October 3). However, if what she recommends can be summed up as liberal education for citizenship, we...
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Learning accounts
AN article on individual learning accounts (THES, October 10), implied that I was hostile to the concept and in particular that I had commented that the Bamford Taggs proposals were ill thought out....
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A giant of SciFi
Andrew Robinson's feature on Arthur C. Clarke (THES, October 10) is thorough and detailed, but I cannot help feeling that many recent commentators on Clarke are not articulating what makes him such a...
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Questions of crime
SEAN McConville (THES, October 10) raises some interesting questions about the nature of funding for criminological research but he over-simplifies the issues. First, the article fails to deal with...
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Eastern promise
We professors of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, wish to reassure Professor Carsten and his co-signatories (THES, October 3) that we have no intention of...
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NUS angry over fees
Speculation in your report that the National Union of Students "appears to have thrown in the towel" (THES, October 3) could not be further from the truth nor is it a fair reflection of the enormous...
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Don's diary
Monday Here we are in the Black Lion Hotel in wild Wales after a hectic summer. In May I was appointed to the new chair of Judaism at the University of Wales, Lampeter. This is the only established...
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More funding or more stress?
UNIVERSITIES are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea over the funding crisis. Issues of principle and practicality are vying for central position. The extra Pounds 165 million for...
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Teaching: broader horizons
Cath Cotton talks to academics about breaking down barriers in the brave world of interdisciplinarity Anthropology at Roehampton Institute London: interdisciplinary teaching across social and natural...