Microgravity in cash downslide
British scientists flying an experiment on the United States space shuttle Columbia say that their nascent subject, microgravity research, could die a quick death when the shuttle lands today. Their...
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How Latin can be music to the ears
Long-suffering students at the University of Munster in Germany once named a campaign against compulsory Latin exams for many degree subjects "Latinum in Latrinam!" Lecturer, Karl-Heinz von...
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Blossoms nipped in the bud
Stopping new universities doing legitimate university work is wrong Few universities in the United Kingdom are older than 200 years and only two of these are English. When England was industrialising...
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Entry plans split system
Radical proposals to transform the student admissions procedure could reduce some universities to little more than clearing institutions mopping up candidates who fail to secure places on sought-...
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Dear Don
Hardly surprising that the vice chancellors' email network is strictly private - like all of us they need somewhere to let off steam to other people who will understand. But is a commercial...
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Marine funding figures all at sea
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has disputed claims that Scottish biology students face discrimination because it has cut funds to a national marine biological station. Both SHEFC and...
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Cash back pledge is too late
The Canadian province of Alberta's government is reinstating some of the 21 per cent of cuts to higher education it has made in its past three years in office. The Progressive Conservative Party has...
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Teaching: just another subject?
The recent outcry against the Government's plans to ask the Teacher Training Agency to develop a national curriculum for initial teacher training (THES, June 21) was extreme and misplaced. Once again...
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Harsh words miss Harris's point
I am sorry that Anthony Cohen (Opinion, THES, June 28) felt it necessary to address the recommendations of the postgraduate review, which I chaired, in somewhat intemperate language, particularly...
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Employers renege on college pay
Further education college managers fear a significant fall in morale and motivation following claims that employers reneged on an understanding over pay. Leaders of the Association for College...
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Growth spurt ends for staying-on rate
The first official signs of another crisis in post-16 education emerged this week. Government figures reveal that growth in the proportion of 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training has tailed...
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Foot and mouth
Say what you like about Euro96, it at least gave academics in financially straitened universities something else to be worried about. A THES reporter ringing a London Guildhall academic the morning...
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Staff oppose degree move
Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education has taken a further step towards full university status by announcing that it will offer its own degrees for courses starting next academic year. The High...
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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Ancillary staff support
Iwrite to associate the Transport and General Workers Union with the battle against cash cuts in higher education (THES, June 28). Attention may have centred on mortar boards but the T&G is...