Spinning right out of control
It may have provided juicy soundbites for newspapers and politicians, but the spin the ESRC put on our findings about grammar in schools does no one any favours, warn Christopher Brumfit and Rosamond...
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Treasury eyes spy uncrowded rooms
The Government has been handed a powerful new weapon in its battle to prove that universities are not underfunded, with the issue this week of a report from the National Audit Office. The report The...
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Noble prizes
Alumni to be proud of No 54 and 55 are those fine upstanding exemplars of the hereditary principle, milords the seventh marquesses of Bristol and Bath (what is it about these places in the West...
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Nadia Abdalla
Nadia Abdalla is slowly rebuilding a life shattered when a coup in her homeland Sudan forced her into exile. As a trained doctor Mrs Abdalla was part of Sudan's elite. In 1989 she was in Britain,...
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Scots FE should take the English road
A Labour MP has called for Scotland to consider following the English pattern of funding higher education in its further education sector. Courses run by Scottish further education colleges are...
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Delay in reform risks new unrest
Long-awaited French university reform plans, promised in the wake of last autumn's student unrest, have turned out to be just the first stage in a long-term process without any extra funding. The...
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Bathetic excuses
Yes it's working - but the Government is oddly reluctant to claim the credit. Were Lord Robbins alive today he would be amazed that we have a higher education system with a 30 per cent age...
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Responsible science
Is it really part of a scientist's responsibility to avoid advocating "radical measures" until cause and effect are firmly established ("A Shot in the dark", THES, June 14)? Should a responsible...
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Medical Bills
The Bill to allow University College London to absorb the Royal Free Hospital Medical School passed through Parliament last week. On Monday the Bill to permit King's College, London, to merge its...
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Chancellors fight state's private plan
University chiefs are on a collision course with the Greek education ministry over private universities. The disclosure of a ministry secret document containing plans to found private universities...
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Franchise inquiry looms at Swansea
Academic staff at Swansea Institute of Higher Education recorded a vote of no confidence in principal Gerald Stockdale and two other senior managers this week after weeks of publicity surrounding the...
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Natfhe warns of autumn unrest
A fresh wave of autumn strikes looms in further education after lecturers' unions finalised their response to an employers' offer containing "unacceptable strings". A pay rise of 2.1 per cent has...
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Joe N'Danga Koroma
Former military cadet Joe N'Danga Koroma is now looking forward to a career in healing the scars of conflict as opposed to inflicting them. He was heading for a promising career in the Sierra Leone...
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Global votes are queried
British voters are to be compared with electorates around the world as part of the most intensive academic general election study yet. Nearly 10,000 electors will be interviewed as part of the 1997...
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lesson from down under
Amanda Vanstone, Australia's minister responsible for higher education (among much else) has, after only a few months in office, made herself quite a reputation - and not one to envy. The former...