For tip-top condition take top up
Mr Clarke is to be congratulated on his clarity. For the new Budget settlement makes it clear that British universities can no longer hope that they will be able to offer decent teaching in decent...
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Unesco price is a bargain offer
This week ceremonies have taken place to mark the 50th anniversary of the adoption of Unesco's constitution in London. Many ambassadors, high commissioners, politicians of all parties and a large...
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No more local heroes?
I was surprised that Anthea Millet in her explanation of the TTA's proposals for reform (THES, December 1) lists only four charges brought against the consultative document about the future of...
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No more local heroes?
I was interested to see Anthea Millett's article, which was written before the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers had prepared its response to the publication of the Coopers and...
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Private cash will restore autonomy
The case for a private sector loans scheme is that it will promote the autonomy of the universities and reduce the extent of their financial dependence on the state. The Government inadvertently laid...
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No strings research
Whatever the reasons for top scientists working on BSE at the Institute of Animal Health apparently coming under threat, the wider public must be wondering how essential research on a possibly life-...
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Business bids low for skills
It is difficult to imagine there ever being an awareness-raising AIDs-style "training" day, let alone a whole week. But, in retrospect, that is what we have just had - if unofficially and without...
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Part of the equation
Will the Budget revive demands to rethink higher education funding? Ann Hanson, David Smith and Ian Pyper want a model based on part-time students' needs. Earlier in the year it looked as though The...
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Don's Diary
Monday. To Riga, Latvia. We're off for a seminar with university lecturers who might add British studies to their sophisticated programme of advanced English language teaching work. I have spent...
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From the week came strengths
My diary says it was just week 46 - not "Education Week", "Further Education Week" or even "Probity in Education Week". Yet it ought to have had a special name for it provided three intriguing firsts...
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It is authentic
The Life of King Alfred purports to have been written in the year 893 by a Welsh priest at King Alfred's court. The work has not been found to contain any errors or anachronisms of a kind that would...
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Alf, the cinder fella
Simon Targett reports on how a dispute among medieval historians over the authenticity of King Alfred's biography (Asser's Life) has grown from an argument about burnt cakes into a flaming row about...
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You've come a long way
The Scottish renaissance of the 18th century was a remarkable development. Its original contributions to modern thought deserve the attention they have received. What is less well known is that the...
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It is a forgery
The realisation that The Life of King Alfred is a forgery compiled by a monk in the early 11th century has profound implications not only for our understanding of the historical Alfred - now freed...
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The ascendancy of man
Roger Penrose tells Kam Patel why he thinks human beings will always be cleverer than computers and why we need a new physics Most of us at times will come across some aspect of the physical world...