More cuts among the red herrings
Now that the full implications of the Budget statement have had time to sink in, the reality seems even grimmer than before and it is worth spelling out exactly why. For 1996/97 the Higher Education...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Plant collecting in Ethiopia with Discovery Expeditions leads me on a mini-expedition to the Simien Mountains National Park, leaving some specimens drying in their presses in a tent at base...
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Buddy, can you spare a fee?
Fees to pay or not to pay? Stephen Romer sounds a note of warning on the US experience Influential parties in United Kingdom higher education are beginning to think the unthinkable: students will...
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Ignorance is not written on a CD-Rom
So: modern students find reading books irksome and challenging, finds Vincent Mitchell (THES, December 22). This is terrible news. It clearly requires a radical solution. Mitchell has one: books are...
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Faithfully yours?
Faint words or staunch heart? Roger Iredale on the British Council's attempt to quell criticism of its dual role as higher education's advocate and competitor The end of December saw the publication...
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Slow to criticise
It transpires from Sir Michael Atiyah's 1995 presidential address to the Royal Society (Perspective, THES, January 5) that the society has at long last awoken to the dangers of anti-science. What a...
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One God against the odds
On the basis of his article "From the laboratory to the inventor", (THES, January 12) Richard Swinburne's forthcoming book, Is there a God?, is unlikely to ask what is surely the central question,...
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Pedalling hard not soft on NVQs
Alan Smithers claims a third of the evaluation advisory group share his view that last week's report on the top 100 national vocational qualifications "soft pedalled" (THES, January 12). All members...
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Regions of doubt
Roger King (Letters, THES, January 12) objects to my warning that the development of universities with a strong regional emphasis could lead to unhealthy rivalry for students. While I welcome the co-...
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Quality franchise in Turkey
It is unfortunate that Dorian Jones's article (THES, January 5) about our partnership in Turkey confuses Oxford Brookes's Turkish partners, Dogus Private Schools, with a "business conglomerate" and "...
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Tuning in to drop-outs
There can be no better time than One Nation Tory Week to note the continuing relevance of Disraeli's even better-remembered coinage - the contention that there are three types of lies: "lies, damned...
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Double jeopardy
This week's science budget allocations show that nearly three years after the White Paper, Realising our Potential, we are still a long way away from a coordinated approach to paying for science: and...
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Slovakians watch their language
University lectures, concert halls and the opera stage, are virtually the only place the Czech language will be permitted in public under a Slovakian new state law. The language law came into force...
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Top French lab feels the squeeze
The New Year has brought fresh rumours of a radical shake-up at France's biggest public research organisation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. According to CNRS management, the...
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Teaching assistants unite over strike
Graduate students who work as teachers, graders, tutors and researchers have been on strike at Yale University in a dispute closely watched by other private universities and colleges in the United...