Pensions palaver
You published a letter ("Pension penalty clause", THES, November 18) from C. N. Refford of Cranfield University about the need to invoke the aid of his MP to get a response from the Teachers'...
You published a letter ("Pension penalty clause", THES, November 18) from C. N. Refford of Cranfield University about the need to invoke the aid of his MP to get a response from the Teachers'...
Consumers, customers, stakeholders. Whatever word is used - and they are all pretty unattractive to the providers of higher education - power is moving their way. Now that a third of the population...
Universities hit the national television news last week - a rare occasion. The picture showed students walking up and down pathways outside buildings with the newscaster's voice-over. It all...
The decision to form single agencies to oversee non-university qualifications may not be good news. It involves dangers that need to be considered in advance. The Qualifications and National...
Sheila McLean tells Kate Worsley about her pioneering work on medical ethics and the law Glasgow is not famed for its warm weather, so when a nice day comes along the city seems to bask in it. Not...
The right to speak out about risky foods is being suppressed in the US by libel laws that threaten people's health and democratic rights. David Bederman reports. Cultures have always debated what to...
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
So how much has academic library life changed in the past century? Extracts from the Edinburgh University Library archives for 1895-97 printed in the recent 100th issue of the library's news bulletin...
Last week the Cambridge Union debated the motion 'Herr Kohl succeeded where Hitler failed'. Edward Pearce went to do battle for Britain, Kohl and common sense It was a serious matter to be asked to...
And here is next year's news: January Election fever mounts as Michael Howard promises to crack down on middle-class crime by imprisoning anyone who is slow repaying their student loan. Jack Straw,...
No one can blame people who work for universities for being fed up and angry. They have had a rotten deal for years. Their salaries have shadowed the retail price index and not average earnings - and...
The millennium is a figment of the calendar - a human device which seeks to impose order on an essentially chaotic universe. Stephen Jay Gould ponders the history of time A few diehards, instead of...
Roger Lane tells Tim Cornwell how murder rates in the United States reveal historical trends Homicide is history, argues Roger Lane, and, just like history, repeats itself. Modern murder rates in the...
The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain - The Later Tudors - Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power
Throughout October there has been a bitter row rumbling over national vocational qualifications. How many were taking them, how many achieved them, had they done more than displace existing...