Burgess takes over AUT autumn military strategy
The Association of University Teachers' new president, Philip Burgess, took office this week and was plunged immediately into drawing up battle plans for industrial action. Mr Burgess took over...
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New angles on old rules
Paul Ernest argues that mathematical truths are invented not discovered and shows why 1 + 1 does not always add up to 2. Is science a rational description of the world converging on the truth, or is...
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Queen's gadfly bitten
Queen's University Students Union - long the scourge of the institution over its saga of job discrimination cases - has itself come under criticism over fair employment. Official figures after an...
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Overseas PhDs in UNL row
A leading Indian academic has complained to the British High Commission about the treatment of three overseas PhD students whose research programmes were thrown into chaos when their supervisor lost...
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Rude Health
Neither Freudian slip nor typographical error, contrary to speculative angst in Antithesis (THES, August 23). "Middlesexy" is the name of Middlesex University's innovative sexual health promotion...
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Tales of woe from the researchers
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. Sir Ron Dearing's probe into the country's...
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Conversion courses a catalyst
Your correspondent (THES, August 23) reports the welcome news from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that entry to engineering courses has been boosted by higher introduction...
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Cuts focus moneyspinning minds
MELBOURNE. Australian universities generate almost 45 per cent - more than Aus$3 billion (31.5 billion) - of their operating revenues from non-Commonwealth sources but because of budget cuts they...
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Nurse teachers fight pay deal
As Scotland's 12 colleges of nursing and midwifery this week join the higher education sector, nursing teachers are in danger of becoming second-class citizens, the union Unison has warned. Six...
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THES price rise
The price of The THES goes up to Pounds 1.10 this week. This is its first price rise in two years despite increases in newsprint costs of 75-80 per cent. Subscriptions will remain at the old price...
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Chip shop
Relative proximity to Silicon Valley must be responsible for the following conversation overheard in a North Beach bookshop in California: "Yeah, he's homeless". "You don't say!". "That's right, he...
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Mobility of Irish and Jewish immigrants
This month's prize for Sheer Academic Shamelessness goes to Ceri Peach ("A Question of Collar", THES, August 23). He calmly admits that there is no evidence for a central part of his highly...
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SS officer keeps degree
A German university has decided to allow a former Nazi SS member to keep the doctorate he earned under a pseudonym to conceal his wartime activities. The University of Erlangen-Nurnberg found no...