Bodies of learning
In successive editions of the Letters and Opinion columns of The THES we have had references to "academics working their balls off","the substantial proportion of academics who are "working their...
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Crowning point
I would like to make clear beyond any doubt that Queen's University, Belfast, is not supplanting its coat of arms with a new logo. The logo is additional to the coat of arms, which includes the crown...
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Curiosity doesn't pay
The antiquity of the problems academics face in raising money for their research, particularly if it is "curiosity-driven research" ("Labour policy poses threat to freedom", THES, March 26) is...
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Web can capture true RAE story
One of the rules of the game ("To win the global game, providers must pay to play", THES, May 26) should be transparency. We would all benefit if your "spirit of openness" was achieved in the...
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Web can capture true RAE story
I think this RAE thing should stay as it is ("That's one for me, 14 for you", Soapbox, THES, May 26), mainly because the forthcoming round is driving my lecturers crazy. I know one who keeps talking...
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Lessons to be learned
Which was the 'absolute scandal' last week - Oxford's rejection of Laura Spence or Gordon Brown telling universities whom to select? Barry Sheerman and Colin Lucas (No Compromise on Standards)...
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No compromise on standards
Which was the 'absolute scandal' last week - Oxford's rejection of Laura Spence or Gordon Brown telling universities whom to select? Barry Sheerman (Lessons to be Learned) and Colin Lucas discuss the...
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Why I...believe the government is right to turn the spotlight on Oxford
Labour MP for Croydon Central and a member of the House of Commons public accounts committee. As the only pupil from my comprehensive to be made an offer to Oxford University in 1979, I approached...
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RMIT wins licence to operate in Vietnam
Melbourne The Vietnamese government has issued an investment licence to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, allowing it to establish the country's first foreign private university. RMIT...
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Headscarf ban stays in spite of amnesty
Istanbul Turkey's parliamentary education commission has granted an amnesty for students banned from university for wearing headscarves. But the amnesty will only apply to students who agree to...
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Bath line
Prospective Bath University students can apply online through a new application system launched by the school of management in partnership with Embark.com. Details: http://apply.embark.com/mbaedge/...
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Balanced view
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has launched a comprehensive information website to combat what it describes as "hysterical propaganda from the anti-abortion lobby". Details: www.bpas.org
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$7 million maths prize
Paris Seven as yet unsolved problems that could provide keys to the mathematics of the 21st century are the focus of a millennium challenge offering millions of dollars in prizes for their resolution...
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Beijing
Beijing University has merged with the city's medical university, giving the university a medical school for the first time. Vice-premier Li Lanqing said the merger reflects the overall move to...
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La Paz
Hundreds of students from El Alto have been arrested in the Bolivian capital of La Paz following demonstrations against government plans to open a new university in El Alto without, they say, full...