'Wrong ideas' are wrong
We were disappointed to see the piece by Jennie Bristow from the University of Sussex portrayed as a student view point on the sensitive issue of extremism on campus. Ms Bristow is not a...
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Lexicon scotches myth of alligators in the subway
Smokers do not burden the health service, green voters do more damage to the environment than other people, and there are no alligators in the sewers of New York. This, anyway, is what statisticians...
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Sports pledge
Oxford University has reiterated pledges to replace sports facilities under threat from its planned Pounds 20-million business school. Oxford's external affairs director said that the school, which...
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Red herring from Mars
The fossils found in a meteorite from Mars by United States scientists do not prove there is life there - and even if there is, they do not tell us how life began, according to a British meteorite...
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The world cuisine of borderless knowledge
John Daniel sets the scene for the 'Universities in the 21st Century' conference in Singapore next week This conference takes place at a time when many countries are showing an increasing similarity...
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HotDocs push thesis contract
A confederation of research student associations in France has proposed students strike a "thesis contract" with the education ministry in an attempt to alleviate some of the trials and tribulations...
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Entry curb on Ulster University students
The University of Ulster has had its student intake for next month drastically reduced after admitting too many students last year. The financial loss is put at about Pounds 500,000. The university...
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Cinderella plays ball
Higher education in Scotland would be better delivered through local colleges, leaving universities a greater national role in research and development, according to radical proposals from six major...
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Summit fails to stop student rally
South African students have refused to call off a day of action this week despite a broad consensus reached at a two-day summit on the future of South African higher education and its transformation...
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Different strokes
What makes Aborigine children draw people as semi-circles when western children draw stick figures? ask Maureen Cox and Rosemary Hill By the age of about two or two-and-a-half, most children have...
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Web team builds links
An award-winning university research team has linked with a hypermedia company to develop its prototype of an industrial strength system to open up the closed domain of the World Wide Web. The...
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Faster clearing predicted
Record results expected in this year's A levels could mean a speedy end to clearing. If, as predicted, more students make their hoped-for grades next week, fewer will be fighting for left-over...
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Summer time, and the living is easy?
The long vacation seems to get shorter by the year for the five academics John Davies asked for their summer plans, what with the RAE, medieval farming and swimming with young Bengali men. Do you...
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Society plea to tether Ropas
The Royal Society this week urged the Government to halt further expansion of a multimillion pound research initiative until the quality of the work already funded is established. Launched in 1994/95...
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Don't belittle teaching duties
Laurie Taylor (THES, July 26) quotes Graham Zellick, vice chancellor, University of London: "The highest quality in research is intrinsically more important than the highest quality in teaching."...