Dispute over tenure reforms
NORTH AMERICA. Three Canadian professors who have written on "the crisis in Canada's universities" are calling for tenure at the country's universities to be reformed. In Petrified Campus, David...
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Pilot project for the Caribbean
NORTH AMERICA. A pilot programme for Caribbean students studying in Canadian universities has been announced by the Canadian government, writes Philip Fine. The $Can1.75 million (Pounds 790,000)...
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Scientists charged with insider trading
NORTH AMERICA. Two American university scientists are among seven people who face criminal charges that they used secret information about a new drug they were testing to make insider stock trades....
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States pay out to make up losses
NORTH AMERICA. Public funding in 1997/98 for institutions soars, but long-term prospects remain unstable Higher education spending in the United States's 50 states has soared in 1997/98, the...
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A country united by its divisions
Anyone who needs to communicate with India from abroad knows there has been a revolution in the past few years. Not long ago, it was difficult even to transmit a fax to India, let alone receive an...
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Friends in the Northeast
PUBLICATION last week of the "Declaration for the North" was a unique event in modern English regional politics. It called on the government to bring forward plans for the creation of an elected...
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Chasing the grant dragon
Are academics going GAGA (suffering from grant application gambling addiction) in their quest to escape drudgery, asks William J. Keenan "Eleven 'goes' since July. Three hits - one bonanza and two...
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Health of future doctors depends on reforms
Medical education must evolve and changes being planned and implemented are no cause for despondency, says Stephen Tomlinson RECENT articles in The Times Higher Education Supplement, particularly the...
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Medical message
Liz Frayn (THES, October 24) criticises both the new medical education courses which follow the General Medical Council's report Tomorrow's Doctors and the emphasis in some medical schools on...
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NUS day of demos
Your coverage of the National Union of Students National Day of Demonstrations on November 1 was pitifully small and completely unbalanced. To focus a picture caption on the minority views of a small...
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NUS day of demos
Following publication of the Dearing report and the government's response and proposals from it, you may have been led to believe that the NUS has done nothing but criticise the report in its...
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Come clean on school backgrounds
ANNE Campbell criticises Cambridge for an admissions system which gives "half the undergraduate places available each year to the 9 per cent of students" who have been to independent schools (THES,...
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Come clean on school backgrounds
Those who advocate concentrating research in fewer institutions and fewer departments should ask themselves whether they really wish an increasing proportion of the talented youth of this country to...
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Come clean on school backgrounds
At a time when the extensive wealth of the Oxbridge Colleges is being revealed, Sir Robert May's views on research funding (THES, November 14) are as inappropriate as they are misguided. If adopted...
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Why Greats are good
Matthew Freeman (THES, November 7) is absolutely right that higher priority needs to be given to funding scientific research. But he has not grasped the full range of reasons why so many high offices...