A trip over red tape
Elaine Carlton reports on the energy expended in the assessment race. A growing mountain of paperwork and red tape is threatening to overwhelm university academics, stall research and turn top...
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Speaking Volumes: The Grapes of Wrath
John Urry on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . The book that turned me into sociologist was The Grapes of Wrath. I had left school in the mid-1960s as a Thatcherite avant la lettre. I was...
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Cornish clots on the A30
Your article entitled "Physical versus organic growth" (THES, September 13) hits the nail on the head when you point out that Exeter's so-called "Cornwall Initiative" is being pushed "despite the...
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Academic Sherlock Holmeses aid detectives
A university department dedicated to busting violent crime has become the focus of attention for police forces in the United Kingdom and abroad which are turning to academic sleuths to capture...
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Courses require a degree of meditation
Students considering enrolling at a new residential college run by the Maharishi Foundation, which promotes transcendental meditation, were told this week to get as much impartial information as...
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Winging it
A heart-rending moment at last week's British Association meeting in Birmingham was provided by Gordon McGregor Reid of Chester Zoo, as he showed a picture of the last passenger pigeon, now extinct...
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Report says British 'best for value'
British universities and colleges offer value for money compared with some of their main international competitors, a study has found. Average course fees charged to overseas students by Britain...
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Trawl for Dearing clues
Universities, colleges and schools across Britain are to be consulted on the reform of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds. They are to be asked for their views on how changes proposed by Sir Ron...
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Liberal policy plan
The Liberal Democrats this week launched their education policy paper, Investing in Excellence. As reported in The THES on August 30, the paper calls for further and higher education funding councils...
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Anti-racist myth scotched
Damage inflicted on Italy's universities by a cynical scramble for academic jobs vacated by Jewish academics, expelled under Mussolini's "Race Laws" in 1938, is still evident today, according to...
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Seekers after a place in society
Refugees are perhaps the most neglected and most unfairly treated group in higher education debates. It would be easy to condemn the sector but that would be unhelpful in preparing the ground for a...
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Sociological slant to quality debate
One of the reasons why the problems of quality in higher education appear to be so intractable is that the legacy of the ideology which generated the problems also effects a virtual embargo on the...
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Fighting for a balance
The new chief executive of the Association of Colleges has pledged to fight for the same financial support for further education students as those in higher education already get. Roger Ward,...
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Teaching skills get all shook up
The Government has announced the "biggest-ever" shake-up of teacher training, involving the rapid introduction of a national curriculum for universities and colleges. From September next year teacher...
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French press lacks baronial archetypes
Huw Richards reports from the Institute of Contemporary History conference on A Century of the Popular Press. Anglo-American journalism provides immense scope for connoisseurs of the Great Man theory...