The Grand Tour in search of ideas
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Geoff Maslen caught up with Sir Ron during his...
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Cuts focus moneyspinning minds
MELBOURNE. Australian universities generate almost 45 per cent - more than Aus$3 billion (31.5 billion) - of their operating revenues from non-Commonwealth sources but because of budget cuts they...
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Biorhythms and blues
Feeling depressed? Robert Thayer has a suggestion to lighten your mood. Everyday moods are perfect natural barometers of our psychological and biological state. They reflect such influences as sleep...
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Conversion courses a catalyst
Your correspondent (THES, August 23) reports the welcome news from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that entry to engineering courses has been boosted by higher introduction...
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Record numbers gain access at Dundee
A record number of unqualified young people have been accepted by Dundee University after completing a rigorous ten-week access programme. At a special "graduation" ceremony, 57 of the 72 students...
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Tales of woe from the researchers
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Sir Ron Dearing's probe into the country's...
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Students sit in against fee rise
WELLINGTON. Simmering opposition to user-pays higher education has boiled over with a week-long student sit-in at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand's southernmost university, late last month....
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Not getting anywhere
Roger Scruton's addendum to his article on animal rights (THES, August 30) does nothing to further his case, first because it is based on unargued assumptions and second because it misses the central...
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Rude Health
Neither Freudian slip nor typographical error, contrary to speculative angst in Antithesis (THES, August 23). "Middlesexy" is the name of Middlesex University's innovative sexual health promotion...
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Even of Keele
What were the politicians who pronounce on education like at university? Liberal Democrat Don Foster kicks off our series on the college lives of the main party spokespeople by recalling his 1960s...
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Low standards after brief orgy
If university management schools fail to impress the practitioner world and at the same time invite suspicions about its intellectual underpinnings from peer academics (THES, August 30) we ourselves...
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Overseas PhDs in UNL row
A leading Indian academic has complained to the British High Commission about the treatment of three overseas PhD students whose research programmes were thrown into chaos when their supervisor lost...
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Bright Tiger
Going back on numerous pledges to stay on and graduate from Stanford, Tiger Woods - who recently won the United States Amateur Golf Championship for an unprecedented third time in a row - has turned...
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Queen's gadfly bitten
Queen's University Students Union - long the scourge of the institution over its saga of job discrimination cases - has itself come under criticism over fair employment. Official figures after an...
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SuperJANET and the IT factor
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The impact of information technology on teaching...