HEFCE launches 12 private initiatives
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has unveiled 12 "pathfinder" projects for private finance, valued at Pounds 119 million. The projects, ranging from the relocation of a business...
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Shards of genius
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli have studied a savant who speaks 20 languages but struggles to put on a shirt. Readers of this newspaper probably consider...
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Englishman heads Monash
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
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Race case switches admission quota rule
Conservatives hope an Appeals Court ruling against using race as a basis of admissions to the University of Texas has sounded the death knell for affirmative action programmes across the United...
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Tashkent masterminds
Nearly three years ago a group of European Union specialists came to Uzbekistan in former Soviet Central Asia to launch a programme to train teachers of business management. The aim was to set in...
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Turks take to streets over tuition
Turkey is in the grip of growing student unrest over the imposition of higher tuition fees by the national university administration, YOK. The disturbances are the worst the country has experienced...
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Micawber factor
Your report of the findings of the Public Accounts Committee on the operations of the Student Loans Company (THES, March 22) rightly records the amount of the total outstanding loan portfolio which...
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Flick and press squeezes
The article by David Cesarani was confused and confusing - one's strong impression was that it was written merely to have his name publicly associated with this controversy. In line with Oxford...
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Endearing to all sides
Careful advance briefing and careful gathering of long-circulated ideas secured a smooth passage for Sir Ron Dearing's report on 16-19 qualifications published this week. It contains few surprises;...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. Over 100 ago Charles Darwin speculated that language was an "instinct". Evidence suggests...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. The language gene is the holy grail of linguistics. Find that, and you are up there with...
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Catcher of the wry
American campus chronicler Alison Lurie talks to Tim Cornwell. The first tale in Alison Lurie's last book, a volume of short stories, Women and Ghosts, features a professor named Gregor Spiegelman....
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Press clanger
Cambridge University Press's decision not to publish Anastasia Karakasidou's Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood sets an alarming precedent, argues Richard Clogg. That "Macedonia" is the word for a fruit...
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Faith, hope and parity
Simon Lee tells Simon Targett why he gave up a law chair to run a higher education institute. It was like old times. As soon as the IRA returned to London, Simon Lee was back on the radio. After...
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Bird brain clue to memory riddle
A study of chicks' eating tastes has identified a molecule that affects their memory, which could provide a breakthrough in the quest to treat Alzheimer's disease. We are our memories. In old age we...