Students keep up pressure
Serbian student protests against the government's annulment of the November local election results passed their 80th day last week with some hint of progress towards acceptance of pro-democracy...
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States of devolution and static friction
Anthony Cohen condemns the tidy-minded ethos of the Harris report and its especially baleful consequences for Scotland. The authors of the Harris report on postgraduate studies have quite missed the...
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Court threat to plagiarists
INTERNATIONAL publishers are threatening legal action to try to stamp out plagiarism by Italian academics and authors. Although common knowledge in Italy, the size of the breach of copyright problem...
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Engineer's epistles
An important collection of long-lost papers and drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel were unveiled by Bristol University this week. The university paid around Pounds 100,000 at Christie's for the...
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Biomedical research relies on begging bowl
Charities are now funding more than twice as many biomedical research papers in the United Kingdom as the Government-funded Medical Research Council. Joe Anderson, head of the unit for policy...
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Taken for a ride
Indignant denial, from a source close to the University of Hertfordshire, of our suggestion (September 6) that the university bus service might start refusing to allow passengers to leave until they...
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Cuts cut back
Cuts to the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme have been restored following a meeting of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The grant for 1996/97 will be Pounds 10 million,...
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Poppleton pie requires a sense of humour
Laurie Taylor's weekly portions of Poppleton pie seem to be a source of heartburn for Gary Holmes (THES, September 6). To me they always come as a well-deserved dessert. Professor Taylor's treats can...
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Dodging the FE shrapnel
These days, when politicians discuss learning they mentally drop the L. In the run-up to a bitter general election battle no one can afford to forget about money for a moment. For further education...
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Indian bookworms turn
INDIA is deciding whether to "Indianise" university textbooks following complaints that western texts ignore "realities" and put students who are not fluent in English at a disadvantage. The...
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Homerton ensures excellence
I write in the strongest possible terms about the article entitled "In defence of Cambridge excellence" by Frank H. King (THES, February 2). Dr King is seeking to mislead your readers, in the same...
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Call for rethink on meningitis
AN OFFICIAL report by the Bro Taf health authority on the outbreak of meningitis at the University of Wales, Cardiff has suggested that the Government Public Health Laboratory Service should review...
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Fees threat to asylum-seekers
Tough new rules on student asylum seekers could rob colleges of enrolments and thousands of pounds in cash. Admissions tutors are already worried about making up numbers this term because of changes...
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Jet-X hitches Russian ride
An X-ray sensitive satellite developed by astronomers at Leicester University is intending to shed light on the darkest secrets of black holes. There are two types of black hole: small ones on the...
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Funding by numbers provokes Greek university fury
Greek university chiefs have reacted angrily to education secretary George Papandreou's suggestion that future funding of universities should be based on student numbers and that teaching staff be...