Even of Keele
What were the politicians who pronounce on education like at university? Liberal Democrat Don Foster kicks off our series on the college lives of the main party spokespeople by recalling his 1960s...
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Low standards after brief orgy
If university management schools fail to impress the practitioner world and at the same time invite suspicions about its intellectual underpinnings from peer academics (THES, August 30) we ourselves...
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Overseas PhDs in UNL row
A leading Indian academic has complained to the British High Commission about the treatment of three overseas PhD students whose research programmes were thrown into chaos when their supervisor lost...
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Bright Tiger
Going back on numerous pledges to stay on and graduate from Stanford, Tiger Woods - who recently won the United States Amateur Golf Championship for an unprecedented third time in a row - has turned...
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Queen's gadfly bitten
Queen's University Students Union - long the scourge of the institution over its saga of job discrimination cases - has itself come under criticism over fair employment. Official figures after an...
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SuperJANET and the IT factor
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The impact of information technology on teaching...
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La Sapienza divided
ROME. Italian university minister Giovanni Berlinguer has called for the break-up of Rome's La Sapieniza University, the biggest and most overcrowded in Europe. The university has about 200,000...
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Not getting anywhere
Roger Scruton's understanding of the term "right" lies at the heart of so many problems of moral reasoning, as do the notions of "individual sovereignty", and "responsibilities". Human beings often...
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New angles on old rules
Paul Ernest argues that mathematical truths are invented not discovered and shows why 1 + 1 does not always add up to 2. Is science a rational description of the world converging on the truth, or is...
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Pay review bodies offer hidden solution
Martin Harris (THES, August 30) presents a cogent analysis of the plight universities face regarding academics' pay. As he says, this arises because they have more than satisfied the Government's two...
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University by-pass
A top City accountancy firm is piloting a fast-track management trainee scheme for 18-year-olds in a bid to attract highflying Oxbridge-standard students. If, as seems likely, rival blue- chip...
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Burgess takes over AUT autumn military strategy
The Association of University Teachers' new president, Philip Burgess, took office this week and was plunged immediately into drawing up battle plans for industrial action. Mr Burgess took over...
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Vice squad
The football squad at Clemson University, Alabama returned to action last weekend after an off-season in which eight players were arrested, two were expelled from the squad after being caught in...
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QMC degree in 'wee' steps for jobless
"I got some Highers at school, but university wasn't an option," says Susan Forgie. "We weren't that kind of a family. I didn't understand anything about the university culture, I didn't understand...
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Killer heir to bloody past
Devastating as it was for Israelis and the international Jewish community, the assassination last November of Yitzhak Rabin was perhaps not as surprising as it was painted at the time. Samuel Peleg...