La Sapienza divided
ROME. Italian university minister Giovanni Berlinguer has called for the break-up of Rome's La Sapieniza University, the biggest and most overcrowded in Europe. The university has about 200,000...
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Not getting anywhere
Roger Scruton's understanding of the term "right" lies at the heart of so many problems of moral reasoning, as do the notions of "individual sovereignty", and "responsibilities". Human beings often...
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New angles on old rules
Paul Ernest argues that mathematical truths are invented not discovered and shows why 1 + 1 does not always add up to 2. Is science a rational description of the world converging on the truth, or is...
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Pay review bodies offer hidden solution
Martin Harris (THES, August 30) presents a cogent analysis of the plight universities face regarding academics' pay. As he says, this arises because they have more than satisfied the Government's two...
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University by-pass
A top City accountancy firm is piloting a fast-track management trainee scheme for 18-year-olds in a bid to attract highflying Oxbridge-standard students. If, as seems likely, rival blue- chip...
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Burgess takes over AUT autumn military strategy
The Association of University Teachers' new president, Philip Burgess, took office this week and was plunged immediately into drawing up battle plans for industrial action. Mr Burgess took over...
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Vice squad
The football squad at Clemson University, Alabama returned to action last weekend after an off-season in which eight players were arrested, two were expelled from the squad after being caught in...
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QMC degree in 'wee' steps for jobless
"I got some Highers at school, but university wasn't an option," says Susan Forgie. "We weren't that kind of a family. I didn't understand anything about the university culture, I didn't understand...
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Killer heir to bloody past
Devastating as it was for Israelis and the international Jewish community, the assassination last November of Yitzhak Rabin was perhaps not as surprising as it was painted at the time. Samuel Peleg...
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India plans university for Third World
NEW DELHI. India plans to set up a university in New Delhi for students from developing countries on the lines of Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. It is the brainchild of Inder Kumar Gujral, the...
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`Sexy' media move is a meaningful engagement
Harriet Swain (THES, August 23) suggests that science and media courses, such as the new degree at Royal Holloway College, are designed to attract students failing to make the grade for over-...
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The interesting hole in Yucatan
British scientists are hoping to answer the riddle of whythe dinosaurs died out by plumbing the depths of a huge Mexican crater. Lucy Hodges reports. This month a group of British scientists is...
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King for a day
I would like to point out a rather glaring inaccuracy in Jennifer Wallace's article on whether Shakespeare wrote the play Edward III (THES, August 30). The veracity of her argument can be discussed...
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Medics take tobacco road
British American Tobacco is funding around ten medical research projects in British universities, medical schools and general practices. It is spending Pounds 500,000 a year on such projects, around...
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Quality agency gets rough ride
The Higher Education Quality Council is in trouble and its chief executive is trying to bale out. But the question of how to assess quality in universities is still unresolved. The Higher Education...