Echo of the past
They say if you live long enough history repeats itself. Well I have not lived very long but the current debate on national standards for degrees reminds me of something . . . Did I hear someone...
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The age of reasoning
Dialogue is essential for progress of the vivisection debate, writes Kenneth Boyd Suppose you have been transported to an ideal realm where you are deprived of all memory of what you were in this...
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Scottish college to fight its own battle
The aptly-named Newbattle Abbey College is to re-open yet again - but why is it without a grant? Vi Hughes asks In a step of great significance for the future of adult education in Scotland,...
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Studentships maintained
In your article (THES, September 15) on the demand for MRes you imply that the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has funded the new MRes courses by decreasing PhD studentships....
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Democratisation in troubled Durban
The University of Durban-Westville (THES, September 8) has had the exceptional experience of almost simultaneous "democratisation" (release from Nationalist control) and "Africanisation" (greatly...
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Training for the dole queue
Your article "The training scheme jobless" (THES, September 22) reported that three-quarters of unemployed adults who joined Training for Work schemes were unemployed after they finished the scheme....
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Shopping for brains
Michael Gruneberg, Alan Jenkins and Richard Mullender raise important questions about the forthcoming research assessment exercise (THES, September 15). But one issue which they did not mention is...
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Misgivings on assessment
I also share some of the misgivings of Michael Gruneberg (THES, September 15) and Mark Griffiths (THES, September 22) over research assessment. Research results frequently lend themselves to...
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Register surprise
The list of names that Laurie Taylor shows as being in Dr Piercemuller's new first year seminar group seems surprisingly small (THES, September 22). I can only think that the names of the other 30...
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Transatlantic degrees mean huge investment
The article "Enrol with Uncle Sam" (THES, September 15) was surely useful for anyone contemplating graduate studies in the United States. There was, however, one very important detail missing. While...
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Academic unions are alive and still kicking
Far from fading away and being in need of funeral rites (THES, September 15) academic unions and collective bargaining are alive and kicking in the new universities - nee English Polytechnics and...
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A trend to transparency
Higher Education Trends published in the THES this week is our third annual statistical publication. It includes the final year of figures collected separately for the old universities and for the...
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Precious unity must be kept
Agreement at last. As promised, Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard wrote late last week to the Committee of Vice Chancellors accepting in broad terms their proposals for quality...
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Older and wiser?
Dundee medical school announces today whether "fake schoolboy" Brian MacKinnon, who claimed he was 17 when in fact he was 32, will be allowed to keep his place. There are several good arguments...
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Crossed party lines at conference
A university vice chancellor recently complained that party conferences devote little or no time to higher education. He seemed to believe that all publicity is good publicity. Conferences have...