Key code team deny secrecy
Royal Holloway College academics have defended their research on controversial "key escrow" systems which could be used by government agencies to monitor private phone calls, faxes and email. They...
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The new bank that likes to say yes
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Light shed by lone scholars
The Humanities Research Board was established by the British Academy in April 1994 following the Government's decision not to set up a Humanities Research Council. This was done with the support of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a work which describes a novel use for liver: "So (said the doctor). Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Studies in the History of Education
Gary McCulloch on Brian Simon's Studies in the History of Education . The books that have shaped my academic development in the field of the history of education have fallen into three camps: the...
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Nouveaux hommes commit old sins
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Darts, dogs and dusting
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Unclear route for the rest
GNVQs fail to make the grade on three counts, Alan Smithers argues. England and Wales, indeed the whole of the United Kingdom, vitally need a good applied education route for educational reasons. We...
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Scots funding formula
John Sizer of SHEFC wants to know if there is a case for treating the same research rankings differently depending on the subject. But he has not told us what the funding councils are doing to ensure...
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Go tell it to the employees
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...
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Guilty of science on Brent Spar
Greenpeace's Sue Mayer (THES, August 25) chose to misinterpret some of my written words and to quote others out of context. In my Brent Spar article (THES, August 11) I did not write that "dumping...
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Healthy baby
I would, for the record, point out that Sheffield achieved the integration of its local nursing and midwifery college, as a full school of its faculty of medicine, on April 1 this year ("Nottingham...
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Balkan reality
Will Podmore's letter "Let the Yugoslavs fight their civil war" (THES, August 25) repeated common myths and failed to describe the reality of the conflict in the Balkans. He asked important questions...
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Favourites boost profs' popularity
A series of radio spots in which celebrities will talk about "My Favourite Professor" is being planned in the United States. Faced with a hostile Congress and a battery of negative publicity, the 44,...
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California president aims for peace
Bitter opponents of the University of California regents, who last month voted to end "affirmative action" or positive discrimination programmes on nine state campuses, have taken to the Internet to...