Building block broken
State universities in Germany have received the go-ahead to seek private investment for building projects to ease chronic overcrowding of seminars and lecture theatres. The higher education planning...
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Cable shapes campus to come
The Mind Extension University is a United States cable television network run from Colorado, a channel for people "who want to be smarter, richer and more successful". It relays courses from...
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Malaysia sees role in market
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
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Coca's hidden agenda
Research in Bolivia is helping to throw new light on coca, which has been used for centuries by Andean peoples as a remedy for tiredness, altitude sickness and staving off hunger. It is also the raw...
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Older and wiser?
Dundee medical school announces today whether "fake schoolboy" Brian MacKinnon, who claimed he was 17 when in fact he was 32, will be allowed to keep his place. There are several good arguments...
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Precious unity must be kept
Agreement at last. As promised, Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard wrote late last week to the Committee of Vice Chancellors accepting in broad terms their proposals for quality...
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Transatlantic degrees mean huge investment
The article "Enrol with Uncle Sam" (THES, September 15) was surely useful for anyone contemplating graduate studies in the United States. There was, however, one very important detail missing. While...
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Register surprise
The list of names that Laurie Taylor shows as being in Dr Piercemuller's new first year seminar group seems surprisingly small (THES, September 22). I can only think that the names of the other 30...
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Misgivings on assessment
I also share some of the misgivings of Michael Gruneberg (THES, September 15) and Mark Griffiths (THES, September 22) over research assessment. Research results frequently lend themselves to...
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Training for the dole queue
Your article "The training scheme jobless" (THES, September 22) reported that three-quarters of unemployed adults who joined Training for Work schemes were unemployed after they finished the scheme....
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The age of reasoning
Dialogue is essential for progress of the vivisection debate, writes Kenneth Boyd Suppose you have been transported to an ideal realm where you are deprived of all memory of what you were in this...
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Echo of the past
They say if you live long enough history repeats itself. Well I have not lived very long but the current debate on national standards for degrees reminds me of something . . . Did I hear someone...
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The long, hot debate
Is global warming the scourge that will kill off our planet or is it a myth? Ayala Ochert assesses the climate of opinion (left) while Fred Singer argues that we need to collect more scientific...
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Evolution of Dan
Daniel Dennett has a hit list of those he thinks are obstructing the march of evolutionary theory. Aisling Irwin reports Daniel Dennett, philosopher, is swatting flies. Until now he has been content...