With learning, responsibility
Those who gain most from higher education should fund its growth, argues Richard Pearson As a nation we produce, size for size, as many graduates as our competitors. The Institute for Employment...
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No place of terrorism
How should British universities counter claims that they are breeding grounds for terrorists, asks Paul Wilkinson Reports that several of those arrested in Yemen in recent weeks are British students...
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Agony aunt
Some of my first-year students are very reluctant to participate in tutorials. What is the best way of encouraging them without embarrassing them in the process? It is easy to forget that students do...
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The power of words in the right ear
As Burns Night approaches, an Edinburgh University team has chosen a Robert Burns quote to introduce its handbook, Reviewing Your Teaching: "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us/To see oursels as...
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Star turn
Alison Utley flies in the plane that carried the A-bomb and, together with a peace studies lecturer and his MA students at Bradford University, decides whether to bomb Nagasaki. If this was physics,...
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The sense in satisfaction
Do student feedback surveys offer real customer care or are they just a marketing ploy? Lee Harvey explains the University of Central England's pioneering approach to satisfaction surveys Getting...
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The temptation of skiving off and mugging up
Jennifer Currie, a former English literature student at Glasgow University, describes her most boring lecture: It was always with a guilty conscience that I would decide against attending this...
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Agony aunt
Some of my first-year students are very reluctant to participate in tutorials. What is the best way of encouraging them without embarrassing them in the process? You may find that students who feel...
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Belgrade denies visa to Nobel prizewinner
A plan to send a high-profile international academic mission to Belgrade to show support for embattled Serbian academics has collapsed after visas were refused by the Yugoslav government. The...
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Keele asked to pay back books grant
Keele University has been forced to hand back a British Library grant for binding rare mathematics books whose sale has angered academics. The library recalled the Pounds 10,000 grant after Christmas...
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V-cs defend nurse training
University vice-chancellors will this week defend the place of nurse training in higher education following health secretary Frank Dobson's demand for reform. A delegation from the Committee of Vice-...
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Axe over jobs with no link to research
Up to 60 academics may face the axe at a London college in an attempt to boost ratings in the research assessment exercise. Queen Mary and Westfield College is discussing offering voluntary...
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Laws of the deep South
The Bondsman's Burden
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Bill's Starr signs
High Hopes - The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates
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Purge to succeed
The Political Economy of Dictatorship