Dearing needs to ensure equal support
Stella Parker and Richard Taylor plead for the needs of all in continuing education to be met The Universities Association for Continuing Education welcomes the Dearing committee's central commitment...
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A moderniser who couldn't modernise
As new Labour prepares for its first post-election conference the lives of two old Labourites are to be published. Brian Brivati to Kenneth Morgan about Jim Callaghan Being a vice chancellor was...
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Crumbs of comfort
Dozens of Britons have died in recent years from contaminated foods. Philip James was asked by Labour to set out how an independent agency might safeguard the standard of our food and restore public...
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The ins and outs of our ancestors
Out of Africa or Out of Asia? A bitter row is raging about the origin of our species. Ayala Ochert reports Of the many lessons that could be learned from the O. J. Simpson trial, there is one we can...
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Sugar and Spice and all things not so nice
Little girls hold a unique place in the culture - both adored and the object of more sinister attentions - but little study has been made of the phenomenon, argues Valerie Walkerdine The brutal...
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Money can be better spent
NO What will Welsh devolution mean for higher education? Derec Llwyd Morgan and Nicholas Bourne disagree THE White Paper proposes a directly elected Assembly to assume responsibility for policies and...
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Pisa's tower of computer babel
In the 1950s, Nobel-winning physicist Enrico Fermi spurred Italy to build its first electronic computer. That machine, a vast construction of tubes, transistors and electro-mechanical switches, will...
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French aid poor but bright
FRENCH education minister Claude Allegre has said that the poorest students today are receiving less support to go through university than did their predecessors a quarter of a century ago. He...
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Jobless graduates get money back
TWO private higher education colleges in Germany are offering students their money back if they cannot find a job within four or six months of graduating. The private Fachhochschule or technical...
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Wits search for chief ends with a white
The University of the Wi****ersrand has finally found a new leader after a two-year search. Most surprisingly, the next vice chancellor will be that rather endangered of South African species - a...
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Degrees shake-up
KENYA's five public universities have embarked on a major degree restructuring programme to tailor courses closer to the economy following a rise in graduate unemployment and underemployment. The...
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Uganda gets tough on welfare
The Ugandan government has scrapped needy students' allowances in Makerere University as a first step towards introducing full-cost tuition and boarding fees in higher education, writes Wachira...
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Now science must understand public
The one week of the year in which British newspapers fill up with science stories is upon us, having missed by a whisker seven days in which even a mass arrival of aliens on the Earth would have had...
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Open pursuit of knowledge
With four weeks left for consultation on the Dearing report, THES readers recall the big picture. This week, Fergus Millar on academic freedom THE DEARING report is in many ways an extraordinary...
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Model answer from Wales
Unexciting it may have been so far, but that does not mean that next Thursday's Welsh referendum on devolution does not matter. Those who hoped to see a livelier exchange of ideas on the fundamental...