When the quality of mercy is strained
In the wake of the judiciary's decision not to pursue a second Maxwell trial because of the level of public prejudice, Michael Levi asks if it is time to replace trial by jury in cases of fraud. The...
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Debt hits former polytechnics hardest
Debt levels are rising among higher education institutions, with the former polytechnics carrying the largest burden, according to a new financial guide to the sector. This reinforces funding council...
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Silent partner
This week's alumnus to be proud of is unlikely to reach for his learned friends on the basis of what follows. Neil Hamilton, the former minister who this week abandoned a legal action against The...
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Cut engineering, say employers
Graham Mackenzie, director general of the Engineering Employers Federation, has called for a shakeout of engineering courses in universities. He says that there is "certainly overcapacity" in...
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Anger over Algerian's deportation
Students and staff at Nanterre University near Paris are up in arms over the deportation of a postgraduate Algerian law student. There has been no news of Rabah Bellil since he was picked up by...
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Women storm male Citadel
Two years after Shannon Faulkner won her legal battle to open the doors of an elite military training college to women, the first female cadets admitted under a United States Supreme Court order were...
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The CVCP at a watershed
A managed market gives the committee its best chance of survival. Planning or a free market could break it up, say Ted Tapper and Brian Salter. One of the more interesting aspects of the contemporary...
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Bad genes uncovered
David King reports on the dilemma facing the insurance industry as genetic tests that can predict susceptibility to disease pit insurers against the insured. Put yourself in the following position:...
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Greenwich opens PFI site
The Government's Private Finance Initiative received a boost this week when Greenwich University opened the first PFI-funded building in the higher education sector. The Pounds 12 million student...
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Seventy head for the red
Most English higher education institutions are about to fall into deficit, according to an analysis of their financial positions released this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Correction
In a letter from William Martin (THES, September ) the figure for VAT recovered while he was employed in medical research should have been Pounds 200,000.
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Energy saving
Dundee University will generate its own electricity this month with the completion of a Pounds 2 million combined heat and power plant. The first in Britain, the plant will pay for itself in five...
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Tory science policy too market-driven
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. The Labour conference endorsed an attack on the privatisation and erosion of British public sector science. A composite resolution...
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Linguist of dissent
Chomsky's Politics
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Low intensity democracy
Unravelling Global Apartheid - Promoting Polyarchy