Opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building
(Photograph) - Round trip: architect Richard Brearley puts Gillian Shephard, the Education and Employment Secretary, in the picture on the official opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building at the...
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Mobile phone blinds the stars
Mobile phones are posing a threat to astronomers' research into the Big Bang and the death of stars. The next generation of phones is to use a low-orbit satellite network which has several frequency...
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Art merger goes ahead
Southampton University and Winchester School of Art agreed in this week principle to merge despite speculation that the change could lead to job losses. The governors of the school, which has just...
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Labour limit on lawyers proposed
A new Young Labour Lawyers group has called for greater regulation of the legal training market to stop law students falling into debt. The group wants access to law courses limited to make it easier...
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Firms feel GNVQs 'too broad'
New "vocational A levels" are not vocational enough, the council which awards most of them warned this week. Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications are gaining ground as a route into...
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A measure of freedom
James Tooley explains how the return of IQ testing could liberate education from credentialism. It would be disingenuous to say that I wrote an essay mentioning IQ without thinking that it would get...
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Speaking your mind
Do speakers of different languages see the world in different ways? Mark Pagel reports on whether language structures the brain. Modern humans are in many ways very mediocre apes. We are not so big,...
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Gloom trimming for job adverts
There is a growing literature on the marketing of higher education in general, and individual universities and colleges in particular. It is another side of the "higher education as business" thesis...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. With my colleague Dave Hill give a talk to student teachers, teachers and lecturers at Soweto College of Education on politics and education in Britain. In the ensuing discussion, those...
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Bard barb
Ann Thompson (THES, June 23) calls my book The Real Shakespeare "pugilistic" and so forth. But I am dealing with people like Ann Thompson, whose 1984 Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew...
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Admission on equal terms
It is no surprise that universities and industry have welcomed with open arms students holding new vocational A levels. (THES, June 30). Colleges have embraced these new qualifications...
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A valuable Dutch lesson in research assessment
I recently spent a week chairing one of the discipline committees set up by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) for the assessment of research quality in Dutch universities....
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Follett's FIG leaf for libraries
English university libraries will have 25,000 more seats soon, thanks to the Follett report, says Frederick Friend. The report of the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group, chaired by Sir...
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Judgement day for dentistry experts
The High Court decision in the Institute of Dentistry case puts responsibility on the shoulders of individuals as well as the committees they form, G. R. Evans says. Up to now it has been been...
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An unfair 'trading' tax to be avoided
Recent moves by the Inland Revenue to impose taxation on universities and further education colleges will add millions of pounds to the cost of providing higher education. The introduction of new tax...