Clearing increase
Clearing has been busier than ever this year but the number of people accepted by institutions has remained stable. Of the 1,5 applicants placed by the start of this week, 31,084 had gone through...
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Indian students not left in lurch
I write in response to your disingenuously headlined lead article ("Overseas PhDs in UNL row", THES, September 6) regarding the position of four PhD students wishing to transfer to the University of...
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Malaysia makes quality sales pitch
Malaysia is tinkering with the idea of bringing state and private universities in line on degree accreditation in a move designed to further its ambition to become a regional centre of academic...
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Hot air
It is always enjoyable to poke fun at politicians' poor grasp of science and Sir Ron Oxburgh, president of the British Association, has provided the latest example. In his presidential address to the...
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Know for whom the bell tolls
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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German historians hit back at Holocaust theory
A United States academic who claimed that ordinary Germans willingly helped the Nazis kill six million Jews has finally faced his German critics - and admitted that his book was flawed. Making his...
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Room for doubt
Iowa State University publishes a handbook for parents which includes the following invaluable advice: "When you visit campus, realise that anything messy, gross, illegal or distasteful 'belongs to...
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Contract and connive
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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Intuition wins Nobel prizes
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. "Armchair" thought - the type that leads to Nobel prizes - has been choked out of...
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Come hither
Grievous disappointment for those expecting to see the perfect match of subject and speaker at this week's Institute for Contemporary British History Conference on a century of the popular press. The...
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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...