(Photograph) - Grove of academe: Alastair McIntosh (centre), teaching director of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology, chats to new students after giving an inaugural lecture at the...
Grant-giving charities suffered a double blow this week with the collapse of the fortunes of the Baring Foundation and news of an instant National Lottery that will directly compete with charity...
When Frederick Crews attacked Freud in an article 14 months ago, he outraged many psychoanalysts. It was, he argues here, a fury from a profession aware of its accelerating collapse In its issue of...
Marking by computer is proving a boon to academic staff. John Davies reports Essential equipment if you are studying subjects such as chemistry or biochemical sciences at Kingston University: a 2B...
Lucy Hodges talks to a loud Italian-American lesbian who knows how to handle herself in a fight, professor of humanities at the University of the Arts, Camille Paglia. Camille Paglia will not talk to...
He tucks into wild pigeon, he dictates notes to his secretary by clinging to a wall and speaking through a window instead of simply walking round to her office, he lies in a bath like Archimedes in...
In this part of the world, it is commonplace to argue that English is important to the Chinese because of its usefulness in trade and finance. Anyone who is bilingual in Chinese and English can...
Not for the first time, I have been struck by how much more successful other groups of public employees are than university staff at drawing attention to their ungenerous treatment and at winning...
SATURDAY. The weekend before the start of the spring term. Drive to Warwick for a conference on Ben Jonson. Intellectually stimulating, it has been organised by a graduate student who has invited...
On reading the new journal Organisation it is evidentt the editors clearly recognise "the artificial or constructed functionality of academic institutions and of the 'disciplines' which they sponsor...
Librarians from a group of British universities, which together produce a significant proportion of the total national output of research theses/dissertations, would like to invite comment on...
In "Grant us our daily bread" (THES, January ) Paul Morris, a student at the University of Central England, survives the year on a full student grant alone. I do not wish to enter into a political...
Russian students are better fed than a year ago despite the plight of the country's universities, according to a survey published by the youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. The survey was carried...
Australia's universities are expected to earn more than Aus$150 million (Pounds 75 million) this year by charging postgraduate students course fees. Since 1989, when universities were allowed to set...
Danish higher education institutions, which are complaining that they have too little money for research and tutors, are risking fines for accumulating government funds paid to them for teaching....