Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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HEFCE reviews funding model
The funding model under which public money is allocated to English universities for teaching is to be reviewed. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has advertised for tenders to...
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Hunt for language gene
Genetic research teams around the world are hunting for the "gene for language" after scientists have found powerful evidence for an instinct for grasping language - and an inherited disorder that...
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Credit card principal axed
South Bristol College governors have sacked their principal for financial misconduct after he used the corporate credit card for personal purchases. David Smetherham, 51-year-old chief executive of...
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Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Highly coloured remarks
The racism I faced wasn't a very violent form. . . it was much more the patronising tone with which people dealt with me. It was as if to say, 'we don't let many of you in so you should be grateful...
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Figure it out
The position of non-Caucasians in higher education remains uneasy, discovers Pat Younge, despite the seemingly encouraging application statistics that have recently become available. In 1986 the...
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Netties anonymous
Are some people addicted to the fast expanding Internet? Mark Griffiths argues the case for research. With the numbers of online computer users more than doubling over the past two years, it has been...
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Bonnie mots
Olga Wojtas reports on the task to digitise Auld Scots. The impact of technology has now reached medieval Scots. For almost 80 years, editors of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...
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FE dispute needs flexible friendship
I agree with David Bunch's rejection of "gratuitous personal attacks" (THES, March 24) but note he goes on to describe managers who do not share his view of the FE dispute as "faltering voices". As a...
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Levy the loaded
Last week the Labour leaders of the National Union of Students began to ditch the union's commitment to free education. At the annual conference they announced that there would be a "review" of NUS's...