The O. J. Simpson trial and rotten apples
Academics are to blame for the neglect of police racism unmasked by the O. J. Simpson trial, argues Christopher Cooper. The United States scholarly community has contributed to the existence of Mark...
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High casualty cost of open market
During the recent elections for the president and vice president of the Law Society the problem of an excessive number of entrants into the profession loomed large. One of my manifesto proposals was...
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Social work on probation
The implications of the Home Office decision to scrap the diploma of social work as the compulsory entrance requirement for the probation service are more far-reaching than the interests of the...
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Patten's post is hard to follow
The appointment of the political leader as chancellor of all Hong Kong institutes of higher education is antiquated and should be scrapped, according to the vice chancellor of the territory's most...
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Tax officers eye colleges
Tax exemptions for United States non-profit groups, including prominent private colleges, are under scrutiny at both national and state level. Tim The Internal Revenue Service is stepping up its...
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Art history enters PC fray
Denouncing the practice of art history in America as "one great big post-modern mish-mash", art historian Bruce Cole has set out to take on the forces of political correctness in his field. An...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Buy a book, win a burger?
Confusion reigned in the book trade this week after the collapse of the 100-year-old Net Book Agreement. The decision by publishers and high street booksellers to pull out of the NBA has meant the...
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Buy a book, win a burger?
Confusion reigned in the book trade this week after the collapse of the 100-year-old Net Book Agreement. The decision by publishers and high street booksellers to pull out of the NBA has meant the...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Portsmouth court
Portsmouth University, whose governors have been criticised by an independent inquiry, is planning to set up a higher court of appeal under the chancellor for board members and possibly other staff....
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Medical lottery gamble
Eight medical research charities risk alienating their potential sugar daddy, the National Lottery Charities Board, by asking for money in its first round, the winners of which will be announced on...
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Cancer cures shift out of lab
Cancer deaths could be cut by a third within 25 years, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund predicted yesterday. The charity, announcing its prognosis for cancer into the next century, said that the...
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V-cs stick to admissions policy
Vice chancellors were expected to endorse the current pre-qualification universities admissions system at their annual residential conference in Belfast this week. A working session of the Committee...
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Whitehall's superconductor
Robert May tells Martyn Kelly how he helped bring order to scientific chaos The Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser is, if the headline writers are to be believed, about to bring chaos to the...