Don's Diary
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
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Life has always been held cheap
Peter Singer's thesis about changing views of life and death (THES, August 18) is based on a fallacy - that "the traditional sanctity of life ethic" has lasted "for nearly 2,000 years". In fact this...
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Solution to Lottery squabbles
The public (or rather the media) is constantly squabbling about what to do with the National Lottery money (THES, August 25). What suits one section of society will never suit the rest. Camelot could...
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Scots funding formula
Following the report (THES, August 11) by your Scottish editor on the comments made by Chris Masters relating to the recently revealed quality assessments, I feel that there are two points which, in...
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Students get clearance for HE
A record number of courses have been offered through clearing this year, a total of 14,500 compared with 11,000 last year. In all 211,678 students have so far accepted places compared to 197,971 by...
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The lure of the bear hug
The independent state of Belarus has ordered the replacement of all university textbooks on history, literature and the social sciences with material from the Soviet era, in an effort to combat...
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When the peasants are truly revolting
Ged Martin takes a serious look at the historical darlings and devils of English popular culture. As a term of abuse, "populist" is used by intellectuals to reconcile their own elitism with a...
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Admissions tutor Jenny Reed and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England
(Photograph) - Course countdown: admissions tutor Jenny Reed (right) and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England match students to places as clearing gets under way.
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Breach in Web security
Queen's University, Belfast is having to check all 1,500 medical photographs held on a pilot orthopaedic teaching database, which until last Friday was linked to the World Wide Web, after a complaint...
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Satanic disabuser
The Freud of her generation or a logical, objective academic? Celia Kitzinger meets anthropologist Jean La Fontaine, author of a controversial report into satanic abuse. Anthropologists are not used...
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Between vision and enquiry
John Newton recollects what it was like to be taught by the two mutually hostile giants of English literary criticism, F. R. Leavis and Harold Mason. No man can serve two masters." A few people have...
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Anna of grand fables
How did the daughter of a German-Polish factory worker who didn't speak Russian convince people she was the child of Tsar Nicholas II? Because, says John Klier, the public wanted to believe in...
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Common health games
Universities should stop pandering to a small elite of athletes and instead promote fitness for the masses by scrapping playing fields in favour of multipurpose indoor sports centres, argues Richard...
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Common health games
"Sport for all is important, but helping the elite and developing excellence is also important. There's always a balancing act, but I don't think the British Universities and Colleges Physical...
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Common health games
"It's very difficult for most universities to put forward a rugby squad to compete at the highest level, because the best players are going to toddle back to wherever their first call is. "But in...