The year of filling vacancies threat
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. A sharp decline in the number of students taking engineering and...
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Engineering urgent change
Complaints about the lack of engineers are not new. Similar lamentations have been heard at any time in the past 100 years and more. But that does not justify ignoring the present decline in...
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Rectors reject control on degrees
Rectors in Slovakia are fighting government plans to overrule universities in the conferment of degrees and academic titles. A joint meeting of the rectors' conference and the country's higher...
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Scots opt for repayment
Students should contribute towards their tuition fees, the Commission of Scottish Education has proposed. The commission, set up by the broad-based Forum on Scottish Education following the 1993...
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Perilous waters
Next week the leaders of Britain's universities will meet to decide on their collective policy for the coming year. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will be presented by its officers...
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Pecs win readers
A handy tip for those trying to promote science to the public comes this week from New Scientist, which displayed its front covers to a conference in Cambridge and then revealed which had sold the...
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Coup for 'coffee jar' monitor
British scientists hope to use data from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland last week to predict volcanic hyperactivity months before an eruption. For the team from the University of Durham, the...
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Cambodian tragedy laid on a misunderstood Marx
In his book review of Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, Richard Gough wonders "how many lives worldwide might have been saved had Karl Marx kept his political and economic...
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Fair's fair please
(Photograph) - Fair's fair please: Unison members take their minimum wage campaign to the Department for Education and Employment. The union, with 50,000 members, the biggest in higher education, has...
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AUT fears bite in job watchdog
Lecturers' leaders have cast serious doubt on two projects designed to improve staff development and job evaluation in universities and colleges. The Association of University Teachers and the...
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Predators at the negotiating table
I was as heartened by the article in support of Roger Scruton by another distinguished philosopher, David Wiggins (THES, October 4), as I was dismayed by the condemnation from the animal rights lobby...
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Classics get the cold shoulder
Academics in the United States are more interested in preparing their students for careers than in teaching them the classic works of Western civilisation. Those are among the findings of the third...
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Brains headache
Alumnus to be proud of No: 70 follows Sir Keith Joseph, William Waldegrave, Robert Jackson and many others in offering convincing evidence of the vulnerability of extreme intellectual talents. Far...
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Telling tale of infidelity among heterosexuals
I was dismayed at the report of my conference paper about how people account for infidelity, their own and their partner's (THES, September ). In particular, I did not say, nor do I agree, that women...