Benefits of a loan system
The Government's decision to tighten the rules which allow people to study while drawing benefits is revealing. Further education colleges, like universities, are under-funded. Students have too...
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Entry without conditions
Kenneth Edwards outlines the CVCP's views on reform of the admission system. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals last week issued its submission to the Department for Education's review...
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Council explores new markets overseas
The Institute of International Education in New York points out that despite record numbers of overseas students admitted to United States colleges the rate of increase there is slowing down (THES,...
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Clearing up an entry muddle
The change of the system of post-qualification entry (THES, February 3) that is being suggested comes not before time. Entry to higher education is, at best, an anxious time for candidates and those...
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Race quotas become `hot-button' issue
An attempt to ban the use of race or sex as a criterion for preferential treatment in California signals further the rightward political shift in the United States. Two unknown academics, both white...
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Quality with equality
The approaching anniversary of South Africa's founding democratic election offers a chance to assess the dividends for higher education. Apart from sharing the nation's relief at having broken the...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. This is it - the day I submit my thesis after four years of (mostly) hard work. Spend the morning investigating "how animals think". Today's subjects are Ramblie, a Jersey x South Devon...
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The rational anthem
What makes people buy expensive freshly squeezed orange juice at Marks & Spencer? David Walker asks if the idea of rational choice - that people behave consistently selfishly - has passed its...
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Small bundles of convenience
Carole Ulanowsky is outraged at the way we package children to fit in with our lives. Increasingly, from careers to cross-channel ferries, children are slotted into arrangements put together for...
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The rational anthem
Criticism of rational choice theory is nothing new to Gordon Tullock, who has a joint appointment in economics and political science at the University of Arizona at Tucson. "They (the critics) have...
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Post-results entry hitch
Vice chancellors have put the brakes on plans for a post-qualifications admissions system that could have been in place by 1997. The steering group charged by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Subject lesson
(Photograph) - Subject lesson: the title of Andre Brink's novel Looking on Darkness is scratched on a cell wall below Pretoria Supreme Court. In yesterday's Amnesty lecture at Oxford's Sheldonian...
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Budget threat to space science
British research projects in particle physics and astronomy are under threat because of last week's science budget allocations to the research councils. According to officials at the Particle Physics...
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Students lobby MPs over Bill for disabled
Hundreds of students were expected to join the National Union of Students' lobby of Parliament this Thursday in protest at the Government's Disabilities Discrimination Bill. Jim Murphy, president of...
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Special needs net spreads
Facilities designed for students with special needs are having a wider impact than envisaged, a survey has found. The report, Access to Higher Education: Students with Special Needs, examines the...