On safari from the patient zoo
How refreshing to find Peter Richards, of the rapidly evolving Imperial College School of Medicine (THES, July 7), questioning "how far a large school was good for undergraduate teaching". The...
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Prague springboard
What Mark Corner says about the Charles University in Prague ("Waiting for the Czech" THES, July 14) sounds so familiar to me after my own two years there in the late 1970s that I do not doubt its...
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Merger at the ministry
The merger of the Employment Department with the Department for Education has raised issues and unearthed prejudices. As Geoffrey Holland writes "unless the two are integrated, the change is not...
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Merger at the ministry
Geoffrey Holland is right to point out that a key feature of the Department of Employment's structure that will be inherited by the new combined department is the regional office network. The...
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Merger at the ministry
One doesn't have to be a member of the great and the good to agree with Baroness Warnock's analysis of the confusion between education and training. When the former polytechnics became universities...
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Merger at the ministry
As an ex-DFE official who supported many of Geoffrey Holland's ideas about the relationship between education and employment, perhaps I might enter the debate between him and Mary Warnock (THES, July...
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Visa veto makes bad impression
Last week, in an airy lecture theatre at a university in the South West of England, a gathering of experts on the Gulf region was deprived of the opportunity to listen to a colleague speaking from...
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Fixed-term no freedom
It is not THES policy to carry anonymous articles. Academic life depends for its vitality on robust exchange of views, opinions, information and ideas without fear or favour and we expect people to...
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Agency of substance
At last. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has this week sent to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment its proposals for a single quality assurance agency for higher...
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For when you are 16 going on 19
The United Kingdom education system provides well for high achievers. Our universities have already exceeded the target for expansion set for the year 2000. The UK is now a leader among European...
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A virgin inheritance
In the inaccessible mountain villages of northern Albania, neighbouring Montenegro and Kosova, a number of women are living as men, having sworn an irrevocable oath to take on the male gender role...
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Sexism charge prompts closure
The University of British Columbia has closed admissions in the wake of a controversial inquiry that found "pervasive racism and sexism" in its postgraduate political science course. The sanction is...
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Fees paid for family perk set for chop
One of the great perks of being a professor in the United States is that your offspring are able to receive cut-rate or sometimes free tuition not only at the institution where you are teaching but...
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Research Summer
As teaching ends, the THES will, as in previous years, be giving special attention to the research community during the summer. As part of this programme, the heads of the research councils will each...
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Hackles rise as system is game for a change
A South African game reserve was the unusual venue for a gathering of university principals, who were being briefed about government plans to set up a National Qualifications Framework, a credit-...