Unesco accepts fees idea
Unesco this week accepted the reality of students contributing to the cost of their university education, but warned that alternative sources of funding cannot end the international crisis in higher...
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Medical textbooks are a killer, Lords told
A leading health services researcher said this week that he had killed patients as a result of a technique he had been advised to use at medical school. Iain Chalmers, director of the UK Cochrane...
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Post A-level entry on way
The university admissions system looks set for a radical overhaul. It is likely to be replaced by a system in which students apply after they know their A-level grades. A unanimous decision that it...
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Council sets sights on 18-plus
An 18-plus qualification combining the strengths of A level and advanced General National Vocational Qualification could be the long-term ambition of the Joint Council of National Vocational Awarding...
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Irish budget decision expected on fee ban
The Irish government will an-nounce in next week's budget whether it is to abolish tuition fees in universities and other higher and further education colleges. The issue is being pushed by Niamh...
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College clash over Shattock report
Twenty-two senior managers from Wilmorton College, Derby, have signed a letter to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, calling for the urgent implementation of a devastating report on...
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke
(Photograph) - Moon dusting: Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke beamed himself to the University of Liverpool from his Sri Lanka home this week to receive a Doctor of Letters by satellite....
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Book up on the net
More than 3,200 users made contact with the THES Internet service in the week to 6pm Tuesday, with 728 users making more than 7,400 Internet inquiries on Tuesday morning and afternoon alone. Usage...
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Corresponding memories
Helena Wayne on how the letters between her parents, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson, reinforced her recollections. My father was the Anglo-Polish anthropologist Bronislaw...
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Court of appeal
The O.J. Simpson trial: judicial proceeding or popular entertainment? Wendy Lesser on the cameras in the courtroom. It would be either foolish or disingenuous to suggest that fascination with the...
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National inquirer
John Davies meets Mary Warnock, (right)philosopher and veteran of numerous committees of inquiry. Mary Warnock may have passed her 70th birthday, but she is still learning. "By nature I'm a perpetual...
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Wole Soyinka
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. The literary career of Nig-...
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Gore Vidal
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. Whatever Gore Vidal has to say...
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Taslima Nasreen
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. I used to hear the chants of...
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Edmund White
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. About ten years ago Harpers...