War threatens Zagreb facelift
Architecture students from Greenwich University helping to shape plans for the future urban regeneration of Zagreb are just miles from frontline trenches where Croatian forces are attacking Serb-...
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'Bias' shuts courses
The University of British Columbia, Canada's third-largest university, has become the first to close a programme for reasons of racial and sexual bias. The move follows the release of a 177-page...
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Hong Kong 'dissident' row hits official China visit
The Hong Kong government's top education advisers have cancelled an official visit to China, following Beijing's decision to refuse entry to one of the delegation. The chairwoman of the territory's...
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Hoax review of Boer book raises hackles
An apparently hoax review of a satirical South African work, published in the highly respected and very serious York University-based Journal of Southern African Studies, is causing great hilarity in...
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Hope in Pandora's Box
French scientist Harry Bernas gives reasons for opposing the Mururoa nuclear tests The main reason French president Jacques Chirac gave for resuming nuclear tests in the Pacific during the coming...
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The relativity of theory
The arguments in "Sacred cows' herd instinct" (THES, July 21) were not helped by those touches of sensationalism. The author was a "former adherent" (addict? cult follower?) and remained "anonymous...
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The relativity of theory
Mr Finney says that, far from being deleterious to academic freedom, critical theory is "about opening spaces for those who have been marginalised or disenfranchised by traditional approaches and...
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Quality and priority
I read with interest Ron Johnston's letter (THES, August 4) on the implications of the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise for the funding of grade 5 departments. The Higher Education Funding...
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
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Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany
(Photograph) - Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany, has written to the makers of a German soap opera to complain that their fictional Professor...
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Prof in lather about soap
Professor Baumann, a folklore studies tutor at Tubingen University, is in his local pub boozily talking over the theme of tomorrow morning's seminar with a colleague. He finally hits on it: "A...
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MPs see red on college finances
The Public Accounts Committee said this week that it was concerned that colleges might be forced to borrow money to meet day-to-day running costs as a result of deficits totalling Pounds 20 million....
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Enrolment bonus for colleges
Colleges exceeded their own student growth projections between 1992/93 and 1993/94, according to Further Education Funding Council figures released this week. Overall there has been a 6 per cent...
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Slimline tonic for the shape of UK business
There is rather less of George Bain than there used to be - three-and-a-half stone less to be precise, after a highly successful slimming campaign by the principal of London Business School. But the...
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Scots formula for more women
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has earmarked Pounds 300,000 for guides to encourage and support women in science, engineering and technology, backed by pilot projects to develop good...