Australia ponders grey matter
Academic staff turnover in Australia has slowed so much in five years that senior administrators are alarmed at the dearth of young enthusiastic graduates who could attract research grants and...
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Russian windows may close
Russian universities are striving hard to integrate into the world and attract more British, Western and foreign students. But the window of opportunity for British students and academics keen to...
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Kevin baffles name checkers
An investigation into French children's names by two sociologists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique leaves one outstanding mystery. Why Kevin? An extraordinary one-in-ten boys born...
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Liberal sprinkling of wastewatchers
All the major political parties are reviewing their higher education policies. Like those working in and served by the higher education sector, we will all have to come to terms with the difficulties...
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Agenda benders
Royal Commissions have been as rare as England Test cricket victories in recent years. They did not fit with 1980s anti-consensus politics. Certainly education did not rate one. It fell therefore to...
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Student loans fall-out
Contrary to the impression given by your report of the National Union of Students' extraordinary conference in Derby on education funding (THES, June 2), the decision it took to campaign for free...
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Irish baulk at expansion
University teachers in Ireland have accused the government of incoherence in its strategy to deal with growing numbers of full-time students. The Irish Federation of University Teachers is...
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Crushes or crushed
Jennie Bristow presented a picture of students deliberately and ritualistically setting out to enter into casual sexual relationships with their lecturers in universities and colleges. She questioned...
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Student loans fall-out
In "Opinion" (THES, June 2) you claim that it is the hard left celebrating after Derby. As an independent sabbatical officer not affiliated to a party, faction, or fan club I reject that claim....
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More than a tragic storm in a teacup
At the end of May, an intelligent Harvard student stabbed her room-mate 45 times before killing herself. She made international news. It was a perfect tragedy of high energies and ambitions...
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Big shout for research
Research has traditionally existed as a part of our culture, with scientific breakthroughs occurring in a more or less haphazard way. Small, self-governing groups have been responsible for major...
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United appeal for a no zone
UN peacekeepers may be simply delaying the inevitable but they could do much more with the right support from senior planners, James Smith believes. Last September, I interviewed Canadian...
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The deception of Snow White
(Photograph) - This single frame captures the essential plot that a normal four-year-old child can understand. Snow White does not know that the old lady is really her wicked stepmother in disguise,...
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College raises security alarm
Despite spending Pounds 250,000 on improved security measures in the past six months, Manchester College of Arts and Technology was forced to resort to the High Court last week to remove two "...
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Christopher Pyne