Letter: Doors are wide open
The Library and Information Commission's recommendations that university libraries open their doors to the public sounded out of date ("College libraries to open to public", THES , April 6). Many (...
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Letter: Cash questions (1)
My daughter is pursuing a vocational degree at Leeds Metropolitan University. Now in her second year, she is fulfilling the mandatory requirement to work full-time for a whole year in industry. While...
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Letter: Luton's cuts
Your article "Lecturers protest at 2,000 job cuts" ( THES , April 6), was misleading in so far as it related to the University of Luton. Luton is aiming to cut fewer than 60 jobs and not the 100 as...
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Letter: AS/A-level content
My colleagues and I wonder whether university history departments are aware of the drastic drop in the knowledge their future students are likely to have with the new AS/A-level syllabus. Students at...
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Letter: Cash questions (2)
Have THES readers seen the booklet Financial Support for Higher Education Students produced by the Department for Education and Employment? At 75 multi-coloured pages, it will still leave students...
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Letter: Research harmony
David Packham drew attention to the conflicts that can arise when university research engages with business ("Public interest comes before industry profits", Opinion, THES , March 30). With the...
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Leader: Twists in the tale of MIT's great web give-away
Argument is hotting up over whether knowledge and information generated by universities should be made freely available or whether it should be regarded as an asset the university or the individual...
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Universities fight South Africa's Aids crisis
As South Africa prepares to lose more than 4 million people to Aids over the next decade, its universities appear to be the country's best hope for survival. Karen MacGregor reports. Like Banquo's...
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Age of growing concerns
Making the leap from adolescence to adulthood has never been more difficult, says social psychologist Terri Apter, which is why greater parental support is not only desirable, but essential. Parents...
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Would you give a great idea away?
In the fourth of our series on intellectual property issues, Stephen Phillips looks at commercialisation in the US, and Caroline Davis talks to a free information radical. The United States has...
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Post revolution, art's revelation
Just as Iran's contemporary art scene was taking off, it was stifled by the Islamic revolution. Only now, writes Rose Issa, after years of war and religious restriction, is it blossoming. In 1997, I...
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Latest UK news
Demand for HE almost static Demand for university places is almost static, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Just 0.8 per cent more people had...
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Latest international news
Liberal activists' arrests spark protest Students at Tehran University have protested against the arrest of more than 40 Iranian liberal opposition activists including the head of the university's...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Lecturers and teachers have signalled a series of one-day strikes over pay that could disrupt the courses of thousands of students as early as next month. The Independent After a nine-...
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Latest UK news
Student rents rising fast Student accommodation charges are rising much faster than the rate of inflation, according to a new survey from the National Union of Students. The study found that average...