Strathclyde denies steel site claim
STRATHCLYDE University has denied an MP's claim that it is bidding to build on the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks now that St Andrews University has abandoned its plans for a university...
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On the money
Vice chancellors not amused at earning less than professors in their medical schools can reflect that it could be worse. Sports Illustrated reports that one Mark Yudof was appointed as president of...
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Students help to help themselves
Hardship is changing the nature of student voluntary work. It is not making students less altruistic but it is making them more serious about gaining recognition for their efforts. And the recipients...
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Full-time teacher cuts hit standards
SCRIMPING on full-time staff to save cash could lower college standards, according to the Further Education Funding Council's annual inspection report. In his third and final report before retiring...
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Lady's not an Ivy
The University of Notre Dame is not an Ivy League university, as stated in your item about Notre Dame's takeover of the British School of Osteopathy premises (THES, January 10). The Ivy League, make-...
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Private schools dominate
Students from private schools still significantly outnumber state school entrants at Oxford University, but the elite institution expects to redress the imbalance following the abolition of its "...
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Legal threat hots up maths syllabus row
A LEADING mathematician has been threatened with legal action by School Curriculum and Assessment Authority chief executive Nick Tate following his vociferous attacks on SCAA's changes to the maths A...
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Devolution evolution
The screeching sound of U-turns was to be heard at the AUTS council, where delegates vied with one another to welcome the prospect of a Scottish parliament, which would undoubtedly cherish higher...
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Lively minds and smart people
While agreeing with every other point in Darrel Ince's article, I would question his suggestion that TeX is not based on software engineering nor validated. Formal methods of the sort that Ince has...
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22 June 1998
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Russia's private sadness
Nick Holdsworth's article on private colleges in Russia (THES, October 20) is in some respects misleading. The private sector of higher education in that sad land does not comprise about a third of...
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20 February 2014
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26 May 2011
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9 June 1997