Bar's metropolitan mindset
THERE are costs as well as benefits to the unbroken continuities of English history. The only monarch to be executed was Charles I nearly 350 years ago, there has been no revolution in more than 300...
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Birkbeck tells media critics to buzz off
BIRKBECK is immensely proud of its students and their many remarkable achievements. Not only are they older than students are commonly conceived to be, they combine part-time evening study with work...
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Data wanted on how students live
It is precisely because there is no absolute measure of the value of education that comparative indicators between institutions or countries provide such a crucial, and frequently contested, insight...
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Tapping into adult passion
Iain Jones believes concepts of community and citizenship offer important insights both to Dearing and a Tony Blair government. The dignity of Frances Lawrence, the clamour to find folk devils to...
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Ivy league stirs creeping concern
On the eve of the third research assessment exercise, Richard Mullender argues that HEFCE's bid for more central control does little to allay the fears of those in institutions not selected for...
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Exeter top in German
MAY I correct your report on the funding council quality assessment overview reports (THES, December 6). The top-scoring German department was Exeter with 24 points. Given that you drew attention to...
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The next 20 years
There is no risk that Ron Dearing's National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education will ignore information technology. The danger, if any, is that the inquiry will form unrealistic expectations...
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Copyright clash
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has been accused of attempting to rush through a treaty which could restrict educational and research use of databases. One of the draft treaties now...
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Concordia riled the video star
The management of the student-run television station at Montreal's Concordia University has clashed with students over copyright. In its constitution the campus station claims to own all copyright...
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Songs go on stream
Edinburgh University is using the latest Internet audio technology to boost research into Scottish traditions and folklore. Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, which systematically records...
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Award's logical winner
The Israeli mathematician Amir Pnueli has won the 1996 Turing award, the most prestigious prize in computer science, for work which could prevent disasters such as a plane crash, a failed space...
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V-cs voice engineering fears
THE ENGINEERING Council has proposed tough entry standards for engineering degree courses. But several university heads described the proposals this week as "elitist" and a threat to the profession....
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Councils snub research code
NEW GUIDELINES on research degrees published this week by the Higher Education Quality Council have been snubbed by the research councils. Designed to help institutions check the quality of their...
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Medical research charities
Medical research charities may have lost out on thousands of pounds worth of National Lottery funding because of a misconception that the Charities Board is not interested in funding their research,...
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Galleries on alert after vomit attacks
ART galleries across North America are on the alert after an art student, who admitted to vomiting deliberately on two museum paintings, threatened to strike again. In an article in Toronto's Globe...