From today's UK papers
Financial Times Labour plans a radical expansion of its United States-style scheme for gifted children, with up to 150,000 of the brightest pupils linked to university-based talent academies. There...
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Elite plots the demise of TQA
Teaching assessments may be phased out and quality measured solely by institution-wide audits. This was expected to be the focus of discussions between vice-chancellors, funding chiefs and the...
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Mayor's close call
A farewell service to mark the closure of the Ripon campus of the University College of Ripon and York St John is to be boycotted by the city's mayor. Councillor Paul Freeman has turned down an...
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Painters reveal early surgery
European surgeons' earliest efforts to repair cleft lips, one of the most common congenital abnormalities, were recorded by some of the Renaissance's greatest artists. A study by scholars from...
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Farren looks at quotas for poor
Sean Farren, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, plans to investigate whether the province needs a quota system to ensure access by disadvantaged groups. Northern Ireland...
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Don's Diary
Week One Stretched out on the beach at the Radisson Plaza, awaiting our survey ship's arrival in Port Louis, Mauritius, we guiltily justify our last glimpse of paradise before our month's...
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Unilever extends hand to hard-up
Academics are under pressure to contribute towards the post-apartheid transformation of South Africa but state funds are limited and universities and academics have to look elsewhere for extra cash....
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Love them or hate them, tables are here to stay
Andrew Hindmarsh and Bernard Kingston cast a critical eye over the league tables published today When it comes to league tables, people rarely sit on the fence. In university press releases they are...
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A bed of red roses
You suggest undergraduate numbers have fallen since 1996-97 (Analysis, THES , May 11). A change in the way Open University students are accounted for distorts the split between first degree and other...
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Where passion is noted
Jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim has broken free from the traditional university-based music academies in a venture aimed at reconnecting the victims of apartheid with their cultural heritage. After a...
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Alliance to dissect network economy
A firm belief in the emergence of a new economic and social geography has prompted an act of faith by a partnership focused on the London Business School. The LBS, Andersen and Lucent Technologies...
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Why I ...think research access, impact and assessment are linked
The United Kingdom leads the world in access to research in several ways. The research assessment exercise is not one of them, but this could change if we worked on the link between access and...
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Party pieces: promises and prescriptions
Labour manifesto Expansion "We will maintain university entry standards while intensifying efforts to extend the huge advantages that a university education confers to able young people from all...
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Hostages to fortune
Labour A second term - Tony Blair, speech on the economy, May 15 "Education will be our number-one micro-economic policy in a second term as it was in our first. Education and lifelong learning must...
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The third way ahead
New Labour's policies have led to real achievements and will deliver more, argues Anthony Giddens. Suppose that a Labour activist, distressed and disillusioned after the electoral defeat in 1992,...