Angolans in raid on Moscow embassy
The plight of 900 Angolan students, stranded in the former Soviet Union without means of support, is causing "extreme concern", according to the Russian foreign ministry. The Angolan government has...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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A fine old mess we've got into
The clearing season is moving into full swing. A-level results are out, people are looking for places. Institutions have geared themselves up for clearing - additional phone lines are staffed;...
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Poisoned ink
Zhores Medvedev reports on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the bulk of Stalin's personal archive. This year academics in both East and West have been able to take advantage of several...
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Summer breeze?
Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend their time during the summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The THES asked four of them what they area ctually doing. John Kidd Director of the James...
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Worth more than my job, mate
When Huw Beynon published his first book it met with jeers and denials. He tells Martyn Kelly about the trials of investigating the shop floor. When I was a student I was strongly influenced by E. P...
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A little thanks for the memory
One school of thought has always held that, as institutions at the intellectual cutting-edge, universities should encourage architectural innovation. But the example set by the School of Oriental and...
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Balancing act
(Photograph) - Balancing act: Steve Faulkner has been selected for the first academic circus and performing arts course at the former Hackney power station in East London, to be run by The Circus...
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IRA prisoner issue 'strains' Irish peace
As serious disturbances again erupted in Northern Ireland, a peace studies expert is warning that the fragile peace process is being put under needless strain by delays in the transfer of Irish...
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Green team
Denton Hall, the international law firm, is sponsoring a new environmental and law management group at Imperial College, London. The aim of the group is to help lawyers better their understanding of...
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New crisis post-16
Work, full-time study or a training course? As young people juggle their options this week, new research warns universities and colleges of a looming "crisis" with post-16-year-olds beginning to turn...
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Bar to query race gap in pass rates
An investigation has been launched into why Bar School students from ethnic minority groups continue to be out-performed by their white peers. The Council of Legal Education has commissioned Birkbeck...
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Lay-offs spark Jewel and Esk strike vote
Ballot papers on industrial action are today going to staff at Jewel and Esk Valley College following the compulsory redundancy of three academics. The further education college says it has suffered...