New universities to ease crowding
The Sri Lankan government is to establish three new universities to increase the student intake to 15,000 per year. They will be at Anuradhapura, Ampara and Ratnapura. New faculties are also to open...
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Roger and out
It is fascinating to observe the innocent stance of the Colleges Employers Forum with regard to the concerns of Sir William Stubbs over the "democratic deficit" in governing bodies (THES, December 1...
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Binary code is on the wall
Books are too old-fashioned for today's students so let's give them computers instead, argues Vincent Mitchell. How many times do you hear academics complaining about the difficulty of persuading...
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Research may suffer in clash of two ministers
University rectors in Denmark are concerned that university research will suffer under the widely different plans and ideas of the ministry of education and the ministry of research, both of which...
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Spain links funding to quality
A scheme to assess the quality of university teaching and research has been approved by the Spanish government. Although participation is officially voluntary the findings will influence the amount...
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Term of office
I must ask you to bring to the attention of your readers a factual inaccuracy in Huw Richards's report "Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch" (THES, December 15). Mr Richards stated that Dr Ashworth...
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Too many profs
Roy Kingham and Richard Andrews (THES, December 1) "doth protest too much" about my dismissal of a professorship being created in a further education college (my letter, November 24). In allocations...
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When going gets tough
Don Foster MP, Liberal Democrat education spokesman, wrote to university vice chancellors and principals on October 30 enclosing a survey based on research he had conducted over the summer on levels...
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So who owns our universities then?
The Nolan inquiry assumes that standards in public life need to be different and implicitly higher than in private life, or at the very least the public nature of the activity requires conduct to be...
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Fingers burned
When I talked to your reporter about the current Alfred/Asser dispute (THES, December 8), I asked that I be not quoted. I deplore the fact that I was in fact quoted, not once but twice. The effect is...
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The learning business
Interest in particular aspects of management is fluctuating with the general climate. It almost concurs with the business cycle. Over the past decades, various themes have been in high demand on the...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Phone rings. Could I come to the United States ambassador's residence on Wednesday for a meeting with Hillary Clinton? It will be coffee, cookies and a two-hour discussion of the problems...
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The simple truth about complexity
These days most disciplines keep themselves to themselves. They have their own theories, their own stars, their own bitter arguments. But every now and then a wave of ideas sweeps across the...
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Heir conditioned
Robert Plomin believes we may soon be able to detect the genes responsible for a significant proportion of intelligence. Lucy Hodges reports. For more than a century scientists have argued about the...
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Coming out of the broom closet
The ranks of modern witches are being swollen by new converts, but Diane Purkiss finds they are more likely to be concerned with green issues than black arts. As today, December 22, marks the winter...