Gender pioneer
Dundee University, which is setting up Scotland's first chair in gender relations, also boasts the first woman to hold a chair in a Scottish University. Margaret Fairlie, a pioneer user of radium who...
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Criminal conundrum spawns retribution
Government rhetoric about crime prevention has not been matched by action, but there has been an impact at local level. Adam Edwards, research officer at the centre for the study of public order at...
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Satellite launch boost for UK
The United Kingdom's environmental scientists will reap huge dividends from the European satellite, ERS-2, due for launch last night. The satellite will watch changes in the earth's seas and...
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A waste of 20:20 foresight
Predicting presidents is a hazardous business which political scientists often avoid, but Robert Elgie now regrets not going into print several months ago with his views on the French presidential...
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No train strain for French
France's high-speed train, the TGV, flashes daily across the country at up to 200mph (320kph) and has been sold to Spain for its AVE line. Britain's counterpart, the APT, sits in sidings at the...
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Free degrees, no dogma
A Communist victory in next month's Russian general elections would not herald a return to ideological education in its universities and schools, party leader Gennady Andreivich Zyuganov has pledged...
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Murder taints 'tolerant' campus
The bullets which pierced the body of 73-year-old Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin also punctured many national illusions of tolerance and cooperation between the mainstreams of secular and...
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Wrong again
The Government is getting the student loans scheme wrong again. Incredible though it may seem, the advice of the few people who were asked has been ignored. The advice of the many who will be...
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An unnecessary control
The Government crackdown on immigration will have serious effects on higher education, says Julian Gravatt. Press reports about the Queen's Speech said that there are two education Bills for 1995/96...
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Why no one can bank on this loans plan
Haste born of financial desperation is not a good recipe for fundamental reform, warns Christopher Johnson. The student loan scheme announced in the Queen's Speech makes me despair. In 1989, as chief...
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Student unrest hits Paris
Student action in France has escalated and spread to some of the Paris universities as education minister Francois Bayrou's attempt to tackle complaints about unfair allocation of teachers and...
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Catastrophe for physics at A level
I am studying for four "hard" science A levels and was naturally alarmed by Simon Szreter's inference that my grades may be worth less than those of my peers taking "softer" subjects. I do agree that...
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Marathon achievement
The profession may not like them but the public does. Parents and potential students are coming increasingly to rely on them. League tables are here to stay - and indeed officially sanctioned ones...
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Catastrophe for physics at A level
Before writing an intemperate article using terms such as "scandalous", "prejudice" and "hunch", it would have been wise if Cambridge historian Simon Szreter had checked a few sources. He would have...