Courses require a degree of meditation
Students considering enrolling at a new residential college run by the Maharishi Foundation, which promotes transcendental meditation, were told this week to get as much impartial information as...
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Winging it
A heart-rending moment at last week's British Association meeting in Birmingham was provided by Gordon McGregor Reid of Chester Zoo, as he showed a picture of the last passenger pigeon, now extinct...
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Report says British 'best for value'
British universities and colleges offer value for money compared with some of their main international competitors, a study has found. Average course fees charged to overseas students by Britain...
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Trawl for Dearing clues
Universities, colleges and schools across Britain are to be consulted on the reform of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds. They are to be asked for their views on how changes proposed by Sir Ron...
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Liberal policy plan
The Liberal Democrats this week launched their education policy paper, Investing in Excellence. As reported in The THES on August 30, the paper calls for further and higher education funding councils...
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Anti-racist myth scotched
Damage inflicted on Italy's universities by a cynical scramble for academic jobs vacated by Jewish academics, expelled under Mussolini's "Race Laws" in 1938, is still evident today, according to...
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Seekers after a place in society
Refugees are perhaps the most neglected and most unfairly treated group in higher education debates. It would be easy to condemn the sector but that would be unhelpful in preparing the ground for a...
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Sociological slant to quality debate
One of the reasons why the problems of quality in higher education appear to be so intractable is that the legacy of the ideology which generated the problems also effects a virtual embargo on the...
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Fighting for a balance
The new chief executive of the Association of Colleges has pledged to fight for the same financial support for further education students as those in higher education already get. Roger Ward,...
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Teaching skills get all shook up
The Government has announced the "biggest-ever" shake-up of teacher training, involving the rapid introduction of a national curriculum for universities and colleges. From September next year teacher...
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French press lacks baronial archetypes
Huw Richards reports from the Institute of Contemporary History conference on A Century of the Popular Press. Anglo-American journalism provides immense scope for connoisseurs of the Great Man theory...
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Elitist degree shows mettle
The French university system's deliberately elite magistre degree is a huge success, according to the academic audit body, the Comite National d'Evaluation. The magistre was created ten years ago to...
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Engineering fault in the system
Richard Barry argues for axing the 30 plus engineering faculties which last year accepted students with A-level points well below those of their humanities counterparts It is that time of year again...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. "Fascinating", "compelling", "a tour de force", "slapdash", "jejune" and "sloppy" were joined today by "dazzling" as a description of my new biography of Hugh Gaitskell. The range of...
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Scots back autonomy
The Association of University Teachers has clashed with the Educational Institute of Scotland over a Trades Union Congress call for a Scottish parliament to have control of the universities. David...