Soviet road to research ruin
James Fawcett says science must continue to educate. Scientists do science to make discoveries. In order to do so they have to spend money, much of it coming from the taxpayer. But why should...
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Privations of the private college student
Mek Weerakoon's letter on student grants and funding (THES, March 3) was particularly poignant since each week I and my college registrar have to meet with distraught students and discuss their...
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Challenge to a dual system
Alistair MacFarlane argues for a radical approach to research funding. The review of the dual support system which has been initiated by the Office of Science and Technology is of great potential...
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The value of Acas conciliation
Fawzi Ibrahim's attack on Acas (Letters, THES, March 3) is astonishing. Mr Ibrahim is certainly not writing on behalf of the national executive of Natfhe, he is simply putting his own view. As one of...
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Ski team storms the colonnades
It used to be the ultimate achievement to have a room looking on to the lawn that stretches from the classical Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia in the United States...
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Crean of the crop
Among observers of the national political scene in Canberra, Simon Crean is listed as a future prime minister, remarkable progress for somone who entered parliament in 1990. Former prime minister Bob...
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Union demands a say in reforms
Academic staff are threatening to boycott the transfer of university degrees to New Zealand's qualifications framework unless they are involved in the administrative structure. The Association of...
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The value of Acas conciliation
I would like to make it clear where this union stands in relation to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Natfhe has sought the advice and assistance of Acas on numerous occasions and...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Noble image of a learning society
If all the oratory about the importance of education means anything, it is surely that this country badly needs to become a learning society. What exactly a learning society might be gives fertile...
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Balancing the books
Universities are losing their ivory-tower image, transformed by what one Cambridge University administrator calls "a new breed of academic". Vice chancellors are now regarded as high-flying chief...
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Students put peace politics first
University students have historically played an active role in politics, often in the vanguard of the movement for change. For students at Birzeit University on the West Bank, politics, in the shape...
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New strings for old craft
The Chinese government recently established a centre for the production of European classical string instruments in Beijing. Its director learned the craft of making violins, violas, cellos and...
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Excellent marks for S. Africans
Forty South African scientists have received an "A" rating as world leaders in their fields. For the first time one of them, Christina Mynhardt of the distance-learning University of South Africa, is...
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Faraday base seeks buyer
The British Antarctic Survey has given the Ukrainian government until the end of April to decide whether it wants to take over the Faraday base in Graham Land. It has told the Ukrainians that if a...