Messages from the Dearing debate
Roger Brown (THES letters, September 12) argues for the need for collaboration between the various higher education sector bodies involved in the Dearing report's proposed Institute for Teaching and...
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Messages from the Dearing debate
The letter from John Beckett (September 26) commenting on the article which included my remarks on higher education as a useful screening process for employers was headed "All his own words". I now...
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Messages from the Dearing debate
You chide Scottish academics for their "naivete" (THES Editorial, September 26) because we call for additional funding from the Scottish Parliament without saying, as Lindsay Paterson put it, "...
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Messages from the Dearing debate
Diana Warwick once again repeats the ethical argument seemingly swallowed hook, line and sinker by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals that "It is only fair that those who benefit from a...
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Met. Office and Piers
We read the recent article by Lucy Hodges on our competitor Piers Corbyn (above) with interest. However we were disappointed to read the standfirst/picture caption that accompanied the item - that...
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Truth behind campus news
PART of my job is to keep up with what is happening to staff on campuses in London and southern England. Every month I read a dozen or more university newsletters. I have become something of a...
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Labour allies with intellect
AFTER a generation of defeat and retreat, American labour is fighting back. Remembering a time when industrial and cultural workers marched together, labour's leadership has invited intellectuals,...
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Slinky proteins
(Photograph) - An exhibition at the University of Nottingham Arts Centre called "Molecules are life and art" aims "to show the link between molecules and everyday life", says its curator Cristina De...
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Climate outlook bleak, says report
A BLEAK outlook for the world's climate and ecology, with sea levels rising by an average of 50 centimetres over the next 100 years and many species under threat, is predicted by a government report...
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Halliday to succeed Pounds at PPARC
THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry this week announced that Ian Halliday of the University of Wales, Swansea will succeed Ken Pounds as chief executive and deputy chairman of the Particle Physics...
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Italy regains particle lead
ITALY has returned to the forefront of nuclear particle research with the first successful trial run this week of a radically innovative double annular particle accelerator at the National Institute...
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Internet expansion
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 is available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who...
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Kiwis toy with best model
RADICAL plans to change the way New Zealand higher education is funded have been set out in a government green paper published this month. A purchase model, where the government "buys" the places it...
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Plan to train youth jobless angers state leaders
A FEUD has erupted between Australia's federal and state governments over funding vocational education, writes David Bruce. The battle for the moral high ground has captured the interest of daily...
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Dash for more private cash
AUSTRALIAN universities have taken to privatisation with added zeal since the conservative government led by prime minister John Howard swept into office early last year. Severe cuts in federal...