Vital statistics carded
As a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, Chris Jachimowicz's best friend's father was a security guard at Topps Chewing Gum. Topps was the leading manufacturer of trading cards, and from there was born a...
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Japanese universities warm to industry
Japan's universities have traditionally kept their distance from the country's powerful and highly-successful business sector. With full enrolments and healthy bank balances there was often little...
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Arbitrary rules which impede learning
Three years ago Victoria College offered a subject at A level as a one-year course. Twenty students signed up for it and the results were so good that we offered the course again the following year....
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Intelligentsia fears
The rector of Sarajevo University, Faruk Seleskevic, has made an urgent appeal to the international scientific community to warn governments against the deteriorating situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina...
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Call for CEF to 'get real'
We, the Executive of Blackburn College Natfhe Branch, would like to correct a misleading impression caused by Roger Ward (THES, September 1). Last September many FE colleges throughout the country...
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Question of degree without A levels
Maggie Woodrow (THES September 8) misses the point. Home students admitted to full-time first-degree courses at British universities have a number of privileges conferred upon them. They become...
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Scandal of postgrad army
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. The Higher Education Funding Council for England's submission to the Secretary of State on the development of...
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The virtues of silliness
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. This exercise will involve an assessment of the quality of the research undertaken in university departments...
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Europe's quality wave hits Euro
Recently, I was privileged to attend, on behalf of the Committee for Vice-Chancellors and Principals, a meeting in Brussels. This involved an "expert" working group of the Liaison Committee of the...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
Government, it has been said, is boring. Local government bores absolutely. Yet local government is the only representative institution we have outside Parliament. It is through participating in...
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Mining a native talent
John Davies talks to Bernard Rands, the Harvard composer originally inspired by colliery bands. You would not have taken the dapper grey-haired man in a suit who waited in the lobby of his London...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
David Walker argues that the unwritten British constitution is in dire need of some academic corrections, while Vernon Bogdanor (right) laments the sorry state of local government. Well, it works...
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Rift and squeeze in 1960s
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
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Dundee's fight to become a university
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
