Reluctant Protestants
Bob Scribner doubts that Luther (below) or his reforms were eagerly embraced by most Germans. Only a few years ago an A-level history student would have accounted for the Reformation in terms of the...
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Experience is the best teacher
Universities have come in for criticism because of their increasing use of postgraduate tutors to "mop up" the less illustrious teaching tasks. More and more undergraduates find themselves under the...
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Massacre denied a page in history
Tim Cornwell reports on a challenge to the Jewish Holocaust. When the Nazis came to test the gas that they would use in their death camps, they chose 250 Gypsy children as the guinea pigs. In fact,...
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The natives are restless
The customers - hateful as the term may be to many - are getting stroppy. What with citizens' charters, an increase in students' financial commitment as grants dwindle, and a growth in litigiousness...
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Great Scott
Strathclyde University is hoping for an action-packed graduation ceremony next week, announcing that Scottish Claymores American football player Scott Couper will pick up his PhD in pure and applied...
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Tony award
No career worries for Tony Blair, should his political hopes not come to fruition. Having permitted 14 pictures of himself to appear in Labour's 40-page manifesto document, he undoubtedly has the...
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Pioneer state struggles to keep access door ajar
California's 30-year-old policy of offering a college education to any state resident who could benefit appears on the verge of falling apart. There is mounting concern among experts that a tidal...
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College warder
Wanted: Someone experienced in counselling undesirable members of the community institutionalised by years confined to aged, fortress-like buildings. No wonder then that Anthony Butler, chief careers...
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Ancillary staff support
Iwrite to associate the Transport and General Workers Union with the battle against cash cuts in higher education (THES, June 28). Attention may have centred on mortar boards but the T&G is...
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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Staff oppose degree move
Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education has taken a further step towards full university status by announcing that it will offer its own degrees for courses starting next academic year. The High...
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Harsh words miss Harris's point
I am sorry that Anthony Cohen (Opinion, THES, June 28) felt it necessary to address the recommendations of the postgraduate review, which I chaired, in somewhat intemperate language, particularly...
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