Upsetting the apple cart
Are plans for quality assurance heralded in a new report on the right lines? Three readers think not. The quality game that has been played out in British higher education has achieved its only...
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Reed reader
(Photograph) - Jean Armstrong of the applied biology unit at the University of Hull measures gas-flow from the reeds along the banks of the river Hull. She has been awarded a grant of Pounds 112,000...
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The rewarding of excellence
The most intractable problem facing Sir Ron Dearing is not that of funding students - for which solutions awaiting only political will have long been available - but of funding institutions. How...
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Leyland survives to face more flak
David Leyland, director of Southampton Institute, last week won a confidential vote of confidence at an emergency governors' meeting by what one governor called "a slim majority". Lecturers' union...
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Cutlass slashes mystique of Northern Lights
The secrets of the Northern Lights, that curious, spectacular light show in the northern hemisphere, could soon be revealed thanks to Pounds 1 million study by scientists at Leicester University....
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Clues to third cancer gene
The team that isolated the second breast cancer gene last year has evidence that there is a third breast cancer gene. Mike Stratton, of the Institute of Cancer Research, said this week that an...
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Hot-Docs take Bayrou to task
With just three weeks to go before a self-imposed deadline for unveiling his university reform plans, the French education minister revealed nothing in last week's parliamentary debate on the...
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Spot the hidden costs
Are plans for quality assurance heralded in a new report on the right lines? Three readers think not. After encouraging rumours of a "lighter touch", the first report of the joint planning group on...
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God, sex and the blues
In contrast to the making of Thatcherism, the development and advance of the new right in the United States has depended greatly on the formation and energy of a new evangelical politics. Whether the...
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Top v-cs lose council posts
Heavyweight vice chancellors have been voted off the ruling council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Sir Colin Campbell, vice chancellor of Nottingham, and John Stoddart,...
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Patients get face-to-face cure
Christine has a scarred upper lip from a road accident. She was riding a bicycle when a car collided with her, causing multiple injuries including a fractured mandible, nose and palate. The first...
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German push on 'tiger' market
Germany must make its higher education more attractive to foreign students - especially from Asian countries - if it is to earn a place on the international higher education map, says the German...
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Prizewinning duo
In my Don's Diary (THES, April 26) I mentioned that I was offering a prize of Pounds 100 for the first person to demonstrate a definite error in my "bare hands" proof of Fermat's last theorem. Then...
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Refounding father
Pakistan, described as the third most corrupt country in the world, needs a saviour. Can Imran Khan and a Gandhiesque film of the country's founder, produced by a Cambridge academic, do the trick?...
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Cambridge on Spielberg's list
British actor Ralph Fiennes has negotiated a $50,000 donation from Steven Spielberg for a visiting lectureship in modern Jewish studies at Cambridge University. Fiennes, who starred in Schindler's...