Fears grow over rush to publish
Huw Richards, in the third part of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, examines book production. A deluge of new books is likely in the first quarter of 1996 as publishers respond to the...
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Chancellor choice queried
(Photograph) - The debate over the election and role of the university chancellor was gaining momentum this week at Huddersfield University, which has been without one since last December. The search...
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Clue to Down's heart riddle
Molecular geneticists at Imperial College have provided a clue to what goes wrong when babies with Down's syndrome are born with heart defects. Nearly half of all babies with the syndrome are born...
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Senator swings loan scythe
The American Council on Education, which represents more than 1,500 colleges and universities, was engaged last week in an all out effort to stave off cuts in student loan assistance amid the battle...
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Bashed spuds spur pioneers
Britain's potato industry is rooting for researchers at Nottingham Trent University in their bid to understand what causes potatoes to become bruised. Rejecting such potatoes costs the industry...
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Racial strife seeps on to campus
With the United States awash with talk of racial divides, the fallout from events like the OJ Simpson trial and the million man march on Washington are making themselves felt in the nation's campuses...
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Germany gears up for biotech top spot
The German research ministry has launched a campaign to make the country's biotechnology research the best in Europe. Research minister Jurgen Ruttgers told a meeting of experts: "Biotechnology will...
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Wrong move for probation training
The Home Office's decision to remove probation training from higher education is indeed a regrettable one (THES, October 6). It cannot but have the effect of diminishing the status and influence of...
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New Left marches on albeit minus masters
Fred Inglis relies upon nostalgic reminiscence rather than intelligent analysis. His argument neglects two important points. First, the intellectual and political conditions in which academic work is...
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New Left marches on albeit minus masters
Inglis decries the loss of writing that seems to come from the heart, that touches the soul of the people, that is informed by experience. He acknowledges that this was an almost wholly male...
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Students topple director
(Photograph) - The dismissal of Romania's director general of higher education marked an important victory for students in the second week of a general strike over the introduction of university fees...
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Portsmouth far from shipshape
As the person who represented Mrs Tall in her claim for constructive dismissal against the University of Portsmouth, I would like to take issue with Mike Bateman and the "facts" he disclosed in his...
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Out of Soares's shadow
One commentator described the Portuguese Socialist Party's victory in last month's parliamentary election as a "new April 25", a reference to the country's 1974 revolution which sprang from an...