Loans idea 'irritates' Forth
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has refused to take up the Conservative Political Centre thinktank's radical proposals on funding. The CPC's report, The Future of Britain's Universities,...
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Just a phrase they're going through
Jon Turney meets Evelyn Fox Keller, the physicist turned philosopher who is putting the words scientists use under the critical microscope. At intervals over the past few decades, a cultural vacancy...
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A publishing mouse
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...
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Fee steering into a one-way street
Universities hit the national television news last week - a rare occasion. The picture showed students walking up and down pathways outside buildings with the newscaster's voice-over. It all...
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The party's gold card
For one reason or another higher education seems to be a source of contention in most - if not all - developed lands. The Russia of the 1990s is no exception, indeed her universities and institutes...
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Don's diary
TUESDAY. On the internal flight from Toronto to Vancouver, an airline stewardess anxiously asks me if I have a spare "loonie". Coming from a mainstream psychiatric setting in a university hospital, I...
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The Bible ignores Palestine
One of the serious imbalances in the survey of Keith Whitelam's views on the ancient history of Israel is the preponderance of religious and politically opposing views (Palestinian vs Israel;...
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The Bible ignores Palestine
The headline "The Bible bashers" (THES, January 19) sensationalises and trivialises an important academic debate within biblical studies. Furthermore, the claim that I explained to Simon Targett that...
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Skills should be a byproduct of study
Your editorial "Demanding and confused" (THES, February 2) implies that universities face a choice between delivering the curriculum or encouraging their students to acquire skills employers seek....
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Homerton ensures excellence
I write in the strongest possible terms about the article entitled "In defence of Cambridge excellence" by Frank H. King (THES, February 2). Dr King is seeking to mislead your readers, in the same...
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Poor relation deserves front-page treatment too
There are not many Brownie points to be won in any outbreak of me-too-ism. The universities are to be supported in their very public and well-documented fight for a bigger share of the nation's purse...
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Nurseries take root
In the article "Unions unite in childcare campaign" (THES, February 2), Working for Childcare was said to estimate that only 28 per cent of higher education institutions had nurseries in 1995. My own...
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Points of reference on the jobs map
Martin Hollis complained that candidates for a lectureship here have been instructed to ask their referees to write directly to the university (THES, February 2). The reason for adopting this brisk,...
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Tax relief tops the levy
We probably all understand the game Gareth Roberts and his fellow vice chancellors are playing with the Government and probably most of us hope they do manage to "focus (the right) minds" on higher...
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To Wit: a culture clash
Three months ago, 13 senior academics at the University of the Wi****ersrand - all but one white - lodged a 297-page dossier of complaints against William Malegapuru Makgoba, deputy vice chancellor...