Seekers after a place in society
Refugees are perhaps the most neglected and most unfairly treated group in higher education debates. It would be easy to condemn the sector but that would be unhelpful in preparing the ground for a...
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Liberal policy plan
The Liberal Democrats this week launched their education policy paper, Investing in Excellence. As reported in The THES on August 30, the paper calls for further and higher education funding councils...
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Trawl for Dearing clues
Universities, colleges and schools across Britain are to be consulted on the reform of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds. They are to be asked for their views on how changes proposed by Sir Ron...
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Winging it
A heart-rending moment at last week's British Association meeting in Birmingham was provided by Gordon McGregor Reid of Chester Zoo, as he showed a picture of the last passenger pigeon, now extinct...
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Image set for a polish
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. Engineering is regarded by many students as dull, routine and...
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True intentions cannot be hidden
The joint planning group on the single agency for quality assurance in higher education wants to nationalise the universities. Its intentions are apparent all along the line in the detailed proposals...
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Notes to pull heart-strings
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham The indefinable artistry that makes one musician's performance more moving than...
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Park builds on Wallace and Grommit
Institutions in the south west are creating a united front - but they are not necessarily all doing the same thing. An eight-year-old scheme to build Britain's largest science park on the outskirts...
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Spare theory
The forthcoming special issue of American Political Quarterly will describe six different election forecasting models. Pity it has turned down the model proffered by one Harvard academic who bases...
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Surprise organ of offence
The ugly snobbery of Laurie Taylor's piece (THES, August 23) was breathtaking. I do not believe that you can hide behind the defence of "take a joke", "it's only a caricature", or "look what he says...
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UCL steps up to world class
University College London took another step towards creating one of the largest university medical schools in the world after merging this week with the Institute of Child Health in Great Ormond...
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Scots get their voice
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Dearing's Scottish committee has a radically...
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Regions shun sport academy
Senior academics have strongly criticised the proposed British Academy of Sport, claiming it could become a "white elephant" and starve other sport sectors of funding. Margaret Talbot, head of sport...
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Panhandle alley
Idealism is not dead among young academics. One participant in the poster sessions at the American Political Science Association conference in San Francisco displayed a cardboard placard of the kind...
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Blair treads worn US path
Much has been made of the "special relationship" between the major political parties in the United States and the United Kingdom in recent years. But the contacts between the Republicans and...