Yiddish at SOAS
Yiddish is to be taught by London University's School of Oriental and African Studies following a deal with the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies. Oxford staff will teach language and literature...
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Wood that they had their just desserts
Tony Wood, vice chancellor at Luton (THES, July 26) ingenuously assumes that it is axiomatic that institutions such as his which have vastly and autonomously increased their student numbers, in some...
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UACE attacks Euro blueprint
The Universities Association for Continuing Education has condemned the European Commission's white paper on teaching and learning as "too modest" in its policy proposals. UACE, which represents 104...
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Party spokesman seeks Labour seat
Labour party further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies is still without a seat in which to fight the next election after being defeated in the selection battle for Wythenshawe and Sale. Mr...
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British guide to IT
A task force to advise government on the creation of a society at ease with the rapid developments in information and communications technologies should be set up by the end of this year, according...
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Temple of learning needs no new gods
Who would refuse a Pounds 20 million gift for a new management school? Oxford University's Alexander Murray would A proposal is afoot to build a school of management studies on a playing field near...
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'Bandit', aged 1,500, gives France a headache
Some of France's most potent demons, extreme-right nationalism and the unhealed rift between Catholics and secular Republicans, have been awakened, if not yet fully unleashed, by the anniversary of a...
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Start-up trouble
Alumnus to be proud of No. 60 went to Wandsworth Technical College and made what could be regarded as a false start in life, working as an assistant cashier at Wandsworth Co-op and then as a civil...
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PFI gets v-c thumbs down
The much-vaunted private finance initiative - trumpeted by the Treasury as the answer to higher education's financial problems - is inappropriate and "unaffordable", according to vice chancellors....
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features reviews and advertisements in the newspaper. Job advertisements are updated on the Tuesday before publication of...
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Running fever over glandular issues
Helen Wallace of Greenpeace (THES, June 28) suggests that we take action on the basis of perceptions of problems rather than researched problems. The list of synthetic chemicals which might be shown...
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Mother endows suicide chair
A woman whose son took his own life has helped make possible an endowed chair in suicide studies at the University of Toronto. Doris Sommer-Rotenberg has helped raise Can$1 million (Pounds 490,000),...
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Revisionist advice
A frustrated psychology professor at Simon Fraser University in Australia has issued the following advice on writing undergraduate essays. Avoid the library and stay at home among your well-worn...
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The law of the jungle book
Sanjida O'Connell explains how she used her PhD thesis on chimps to write a novel, an extract of which is opposite. She felt like Jesus. All around her the field of flowers shimmered, slick with dew...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The attention given in The THES to the so-called "glass ceiling", better described as the undervaluing and under-recognition of women academics, is most welcome. it prompts two thoughts about how to...