Cut off at the pass
Sir Ron Dearing this week describes the Robbins principle that "courses of higher education should be available to all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to...
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Invited guest editor
Dan Keohane's full and favourable review (THES, February 23) of the special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies ("A state of truce: Northern Ireland after 25 years of war" ERS, October 1995), did not...
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Firm stand on union changes
Given the importance of the issues raised in "Students wary of plan to turn union into firm" (THES, February 23), I should like to clarify some aspects relating to the recommendation that the...
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Disbenefit in disunity
Those correspondents from the Association of University Teachers who have been confused by the Natfhe policy in higher education (Michael Leat et al, and Alan Carr, THES, March 1) should have paid...
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Disbelief in disunity
It would be unfair and disappointing to the ordinary members of Natfhe and the AUT to end the debate in these columns on such a note of bitter division. Each organisation should cease to defend its...
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The 30-year call for help
A protest by students and teachers at France's prestigious oriental languages institute is the latest twist in a long-running saga. Since 1964, its staff and pupils have been calling for more space...
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Fire-bombs and fights scar election run-up
As general elections on April 21 draw closer, political tension is mounting among Italian student groups. At Rome's La Sapienza University, a lecturer's home was fire-bombed and there have been...
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Don's diary
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
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The ruinous ghost of empire past
When blind eyes are turned to the past, eyes that no longer see the racism and exploitation of the British Empire but blaze with the remembered glory of a triumphant dominance, then a confection-like...
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Academic answer to sale of aid agency
The Natural Resources Institute looks set to be taken over by a group of universities led by Greenwich. The Overseas Development Administration, which owns the NRI, announced this week that the...
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A regius rumble
The ancient and mysterious institution of crown appointed professors is under attack. It was a cold mid-January morning when the letter from Downing Street arrived at the porter's lodge of Christ's...
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MPs approve framework
A national framework for qualifications for 14 to 19-year-olds should be introduced, says a report from the House of Commons select committee on education. The MPs endorsed a four-level framework...
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Mater matters
A brief word of advice for any youngsters whose ambition is to become acting head of a prominent social science institution. You really have to have been to Manchester Grammar School. Both Ivor Crewe...
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Image building
y So which party is really concerned about education? Junior education and employment minister Cheryl Gillan thought she had the answer a couple of weeks ago during a debate initiated by Lib Dem...