CJD judgment
A High Court judgement is expected today on whether the Medical Research Council is liable for negligence in adminstering a human growth hormone treatment in the 1960s and 1970s. Ten families in...
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Menu masters
This week The THES begins a series on a little-mentioned but crucial ingredient in academic life - food. Here, Lisa Jardine reveals her culinary passions, what the Tudors put in their blancmange and...
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Bible gets a title after 470 years
(Photograph) - Title deeds: a complete copy of William Tyndale's 1526 English translation of the New Testament, with a previously undiscovered title page (see above), has been found in the Bible...
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Method not madness
Your article "A subject in the prime of life"(THES, September 13) presents a striking unity of opposites. On the one hand, the decline of mathematics is attributed to its perceived difficulty; on the...
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Prophet of doom
Prophecy of the week comes from the most recent edition of the Directory of Social Change, where, under "The Baring Foundation", can be read: "Its rate of growth is, as the chairman has noted in...
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A measure of freedom
James Tooley explains how the return of IQ testing could liberate education from credentialism. It would be disingenuous to say that I wrote an essay mentioning IQ without thinking that it would get...
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Rich elite to get richer
The English funding council took its first step towards linking funding to its controversial teaching asses-sment exercise this week by announcing that the allocation of Pounds 4 million through a...
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LSE heads for fee crisis
What does tertiary education do for London? Not a lot, says one report. In another of our series of regional focuses, THES reporters look for a sense of community within the M25 area. THE London...
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Staffs flags campus link-ups
A PIONEERING post-16 campus uniting further and higher education students could be in place within the next few years. Education leaders in Staffordshire met this week to discuss ways of working...
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Lecturers set for status boost
A new qualification aiming to create a uniform standard of teaching in higher education could soon be held by every university lecturer if radical proposals are accepted by the Dearing inquiry....
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Dons tell Oxford to go private
THE MASTER of an Oxford college has accused his university of burying its head in the sand over the future of higher education. Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, sparked controversy this...
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Darwinian takeover
I ACCEPT Derek Freeman's claim (THES, February 7) that he believes in "a synthesis I of both the genetic and exogenetic" in the determination of human behaviour. Everyone, sociobiologists and...
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Unwanted 'N'
One might imagine that the Bishop of Ripon had long since outgrown the need to worry about what happens in schools and colleges. The Rt Rev David Young, after all, took a first in maths at Oxford...
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A cry for freedom
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...
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Belfast call to go alone
NORTHERN Ireland needs its own strategic development plan for higher education backed up by separate funding, Sir Ron Dearing was told this week. Sir Ron was chairing a one-day conference in Belfast...