BMA targets low-paying colleges
THE British Medical Association has threatened to "blacklist" universities as anger comes to a head over pay disparities between university and NHS doctors. BMA chiefs agreed on October 16 to invoke...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
(Photograph) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was in Oxford earlier this week as a guest of St Anthony's College. He was welcomed by Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the university, to the...
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Rugby death was not the first
Ian Tucker, the Oxford University rugby player who died this week after being injured during a game, is not the first top-class student player to have been killed in this way. Charles McIvor, who was...
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He could handle cyborgs
Jon Turney resurrects the work of a neglected French thinker whose original ideas on the usefulness and limits of rationality in the life sciences are becoming increasingly relevant. Odd how...
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Republican Lite?
Bill Clinton looks set to bury Bob Dole in a landslide in next Tuesday's US elections. Not bad for a president who was hugely unpopular only two years ago. How has the Comeback Kid managed this...
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Colleges reach cash stalemate
Further education institutions are calling for a radical cure for their financial ills. A top-level working group looking at the way colleges are funded has failed to come up with anything better...
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Home View
Universities have always been ambivalent about whether they are local institutions. Most seem detached from their surroundings in the spirit of the ivory tower, and the trend to build universities on...
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Miracles are our business
A few days ago I strolled into the office of one my best friends, an economist. France's unemployment rate for the past month had been made public that very morning, and widely commented upon. I...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Brighton. Another "Induction Day", this week a fresh cohort of wannabe Masters in Education. Working to a very tight schedule today. This strikes a chord with our audience when encouraging...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
I hope I was not alone in finding Valentine Cunningham's article intellectually shallow and socially rather offensive. I found it particularly strange that a teacher of English would hint that...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
Valentine Cunningham's argument ("Cash for Colleges", THES, October 25) is a dangerous one which suggests that universities should turn their back on some types of external funding although they have...
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The hand of God
Keith Ward's article and the accompanying book review (THES, October 11) made sad reading. It seems that the science-and-religion debate is still being carried out in terms of "Did God create the...
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The golden irretrievable
Stop harking back to a non-existent golden age, urges Geoffrey Alderman. To foil the nationalisers the sector must self-regulate on standards without delay.. Standards now top everyone's agenda. As...
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Keep external degrees an internal affair
Just how transferable is a university degree course? In the latest issue of The Manager, Alistair Somerville Ford, chief executive of the Institute of Commercial Management, tells the story of Onn...