Reforms to squeeze Italy's rolls
Italy's university minister, Luigi Berlinguer, has launched a series of radical reforms to reverse decades of chronic overcrowding and to reduce the 70 per cent of students who fail to complete their...
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High-tech chance to heal rifts
In the pre-election phoney war, pressure groups are queuing to seek hostages to fortune from the opposition parties. And the future of Commonwealth students in the United Kingdom is one of those...
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Jamboree has had its day
It's Red Nose Day! It is also the day Ian Taylor, minister for science and technology, launches the National Week of Science, Engineering and Technology. These two festivals have much in common. They...
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Pay system should build on UCEA
Who gains what from having a national system for settling academic pay, and who stands to gain from a possible breakup of the present arrangements? These questions arise from the debate on the future...
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Cradle of legislation
Amid speculation that human cloning may be only two years away, Ruth Deech considers whether further research should be banned. Britain leads the world in regulating in-vitro fertilisation treatment...
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Cloak and dagger tactics no good to Ulster
Higher education planning for Northern Ireland is on 'a confidential basis'. This is bad for students and a threat to university autonomy, argues Norman Gibson. "The future of higher education is a...
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Health on frontline
THERE may be another explanation for the disappointing quality of university-based health service research reported in "Clinical ratings queried" (THES, March 7). If community-based clinical subjects...
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Health on frontline
AS THE the slightly scorched author of a first-time submission to the research assessment exercise in a new and developing applied research area, I have followed the post mortem with interest. There...
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CVCP has pay choice
LAST week's front-page headline "CVCP axe over pay bargainers" was somewhat stronger than the story underneath (THES, March 7). Whatever the outcome of the Universities and Colleges Employers...
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Mistaken ambitions
You suggest that the Higher Education Fund-ing Council for England (Editorial, THES, March 7) has an ambition to control the spending on research conducted in higher education institutions. I can...
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Mistaken ambitions
Your editorial said: "Civil servants do not deliver lectures, carry out research, write books and papers or win Nobel prizes. The people who do are entitled to insist on being properly valued and...
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Rape rise misleading
Your interview with Sue Lees ("Victims of justice", THES, March 7) argues the case for special legal procedures, including changing practice on the admissibility of evidence, in rape cases. This case...
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2% cut for all trainers
The Teacher Training Agency has made it clear that it wishes school-centred initial teacher training provision to be a genuine option for those schools wishing to take the lead in planning and...
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Scots quick to correct
Your report on the decision not to publish the results of a quality assessment constructed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council at the University of St Andrews stated that the draft...
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Don's diary
Sunday. I travel to Birmingham to meet my minder for the week. I am researching decision-making by fire incident commanders and am based at the Fire Service College training establishment to...