Archaeologists get in the swim
The future of archaeology is underwater, claims Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano, director of the Italian culture ministry's underwater department and lecturer in underwater archaeology at Ravenna...
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Contract and connive
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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Counting cost of maths decline
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. The mathematical skills of students entering engineering and...
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Top-up fee 'to save staff'
The University of Huddersfield has defended suggestions that it may introduce a Pounds 1,000 student top-up fee by claiming other institutions are considering the same thing. In a financial forecast...
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Room for doubt
Iowa State University publishes a handbook for parents which includes the following invaluable advice: "When you visit campus, realise that anything messy, gross, illegal or distasteful 'belongs to...
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Algae for kingdom
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. The natural world should be reclassified into as many as ten kingdoms rather than...
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German historians hit back at Holocaust theory
A United States academic who claimed that ordinary Germans willingly helped the Nazis kill six million Jews has finally faced his German critics - and admitted that his book was flawed. Making his...
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Know for whom the bell tolls
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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Tables warning
League tables of qualifications should carry a Government health warning, a leading educationalist will tell conference today. Professor Roger Murphy, outgoing president of the British Educational...
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Quality plan defies minister
Higher education heads have overruled Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in their proposals for a unified quality regime. Members of the joint planning group for a...
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Hot air
It is always enjoyable to poke fun at politicians' poor grasp of science and Sir Ron Oxburgh, president of the British Association, has provided the latest example. In his presidential address to the...
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Malaysia makes quality sales pitch
Malaysia is tinkering with the idea of bringing state and private universities in line on degree accreditation in a move designed to further its ambition to become a regional centre of academic...
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Indian students not left in lurch
I write in response to your disingenuously headlined lead article ("Overseas PhDs in UNL row", THES, September 6) regarding the position of four PhD students wishing to transfer to the University of...
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Clearing increase
Clearing has been busier than ever this year but the number of people accepted by institutions has remained stable. Of the 1,5 applicants placed by the start of this week, 31,084 had gone through...
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Professions offer helping hands
Accreditation systems used by professional bodies could be a model for a new quality regime in higher education. A national survey by the Higher Education Quality Council found that professional...