Christians go to court
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the University of Virginia denying funds to a Christian magazine run by students. The case will be watched closely as it will show how the Court...
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Private colleges pay fines rather than reveal presidents' salaries
Salaries of college presidents at public colleges and universities are publicly available in the United States, but private institutions can get away with being more secretive. That may change,...
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French show an appetite for matters of taste
Scientists carrying out research into what goes on behind our taste buds will soon have their very own "European Centre for Taste and Ingestion", in France's gastronomic heartland of Burgundy. The...
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Where no one has gone before
An open letter to Anthea Millett, the first chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency. Dear Anthea -- May I offer you a warm welcome to a seat that will be either hot or pleasant depending...
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Sparks fly at Golden Grill
Students at one of Ireland's smallest colleges, Letter-kenny College, Donegal, have discovered the complex side effects of changing their drinking venue. The decision to transfer student discos and...
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Limits of tolerance
Is Britain's liberal and secular academic tradition coming under fire? It would appear so. Last week, there were stories that an Islamic fundamentalist party, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, had been stirring up...
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The greatest deterrent
Students took to the streets of London on Wednesday. In doing so they ignored the example set them by the Union of Communications Workers. The UCW, making use of its nationwide network, has just run...
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Safeguards in superleague
In the "Students knock elite grouping" article (THES, October 21) I was quoted as saying that the LSE students' union has passed a motion opposing the development of an Ivy League of universities....
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Gallic twist in Anglo Saxon tale
The French hardly need to worry about the "threat posed to French language and French culture by the Anglo-Saxon menace" noted in your caption (THES, October 28): the Anglo-Saxons have not been...
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Lecturers loathe to report on GNVQs
Those who thought that Christina Townsend would be a new broom will be disappointed to discover (THES, November 4) that she does not intend to sweep clean but only to spread more whitewash. We have...
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A thinking church
Charles Clark (THES, October 28) has a naive view about how the church colleges interpret their task. To examine value questions from a position of commitment does not imply "the dissemination of...
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Doctorates in trouble
Shortly before my undergraduate finals, I asked an eminent American social scientist, who had come to give a guest seminar, how he had first become interested in his field. I have forgotten his full...
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Appointments
LANGUAGE TEACHING The following have been appointed to the governing body of the Centre for Information of Language Teaching and Research: Derek Winslow, director and chief executive of Cardiff...
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A campus of gowns and veils
Simon Targett reports from a Malaysian university that is seeking a rapprochement with the western intellectual tradition. The man with the moustache stared into the tinted taxi window with...
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The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America
Charles Murray, the conservative social scientist whose book The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America is not surprised the book is causing a furore. In fact he is relishing the debate. "...