Welsh higher education heads have fired a warning shot at the planning group for a single quality agency in protest at plans for a "closely directed" quality regime. In their response to the group's...
A top United States-based tobacco magnate who has raised millions of dollars for Cambridge University will be awarded an honorary doctorate next month. The revelation comes during a week when the...
Hockey has been Guy Fordham's passion since the age of 12. He began playing the game at Kingston Grammar School and found himself progressing from school team to county level and thence to the...
Normally Paula Radcliffe is to be found racing around campus or Bradgate Park in Loughborough at 7 o'clock each morning. In the evening, daylight permitting, it is the same routine. She runs 80 miles...
Men will become infertile by the middle of the next century unless certain man-made chemicals are banned, zoologist Theo Colborn tells Robert Allen. More than 30 years ago science fiction author...
Len Arthur (THES, May 3) expresses concern regarding the method by which the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is to fund part-time provision from next year onwards; in particular that...
Universities must make the most of their innovative ideas in science and technology to secure wealth for the nation, argues Ian Taylor British science is world class and builds on a tradition of...
I share many of Richard Davies's criticisms. However, his article is full of generalisations and misconceptions. Having studied and worked in both Italian and English universities I have come to...
If indeed the language department of the University of Bergamo is as bad as Richard Davies describes it, why should he have chosen to go there ("Academia as Roman holiday", THES, April 26)? Surely...
Congratulations to my former colleague Tom Wilson for pointing out the facts of academic life regarding workloads and material rewards (Letters, THES, April 19). But why did he, like most others,...
So Chris Ormell thinks he has a proof of the Fermat Theorem (Don's Diary, THES, April 26) and is prepared to offer Pounds 100 to anyone who finds a mistake. Well, I have not got time to find his...
Jonathan Bate ("Much ado", THES, May 3) worries about the future of the Arden Shakespeare after the International Thomson takeover of Routledge. He would have done much better to have worried earlier...
The issue, (The colour of intelligence, THES, April 26) as Hans Eysenck observes, is one of free speech, the rest is politically-correct bullying. I should also point out that Mr Brand lives in Great...
The Higher Education Quality Council wants to be the core of the independent quality assurance agency now on the drawing board. If it is to do so, it must produce reports on institutions which are...