EC bids to boost students' IT skills
The European Commission has launched an e-learning action plan to promote the use of information, telecommunication and internet technologies in education. It includes proposals on benchmarking,...
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Kangaroo courts elect candidates to the club
Quasi-judicial proceedings to select tenured professors in the United States are unfair, argues Joseph Fulda. Today in the United States, universities are not content to say, simply and truthfully,...
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Why I... believe we are not prepared for the old-age revolution
We are only just beginning to understand the science of human ageing. I have been in the field for 25 years, but I realised quite early on that the conventional view we have of the ageing process -...
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Hot heads still need cold facts
We need more basic research on climate change before we assign blame, Tony Brown writes. Since the late 1980s, climate change has been at the top of the environment-science agenda. The Rio summit set...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Anita Sharda argued that more needs to be done to tackle institutional racism. Anita Sharda's article is timely, optimistic and inspirational. As a mixed-race educator, I can...
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Net froth is red herring
The web may be better at cutting red tape than advancing learning, says Frances Cairncross. Universities are expensive places to run. But Britain's best are global brand names, and they have long...
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Luton takes on Oxbridge elite
Graduates from Luton University are more employable than those from the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, according to performance indicators published this week. Every full-time degree student...
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Analysis: Scots line up behind inclusion campaign
University leaders promise action as Scotland assesses progress on access, Olga Wojtas reports. Jackie Matthews left school in Aberdeen with no qualifications and went to work in a nursery. Aged 53,...
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Whistleblowers: Middlesex not in clear
The education secretary has intervened to end confusion over investigations into mismanagement at Middlesex University. The results of a confidential report by the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Don's Diary
Monday Answer call for vets to help with foot-and-mouth outbreak. At the Staffordshire operations centre, I am briefed on our area. The county is not a foot-and-mouth hotspot, but is a growing cause...
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Glittering prizes
The Open University 's honorary graduates for this year are: Jude Kelly , artistic director and chief executive of the West Yorkshire Playhouse; journalist Jon Snow ; clockwork radio inventor Trevor...
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On the move
Frances Cairncross , management editor of The Economist, will take over from Bruce Smith as chair of the Economic and Social Research Council . John Doidge , former head of the Centre for Staff and...
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Investing in the name
Plymouth University has blown thousands of pounds on redesigning its logo. The logo - a terracotta circle with three stripes across its upper half - now sports a background water effect and an...
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UN steps up to the mike
Luton University has much to be proud of. Not only are its graduates apparently more employable than those with Oxbridge degrees, but last week it was chosen to host a poetry event on behalf of the...
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Have a snooze on us
Admissions officers at the University of Surrey can expect a deluge of applications from chain-smoking layabouts. The university's human psychopharmacology research unit is looking for volunteers to...