Space probed
SCIENCE. Charles Darwin's face gazed out of a lot of newsprint in The THES this year as sociobiologists went public over their controversial work, which they now regard as firmly based in science....
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From academy to acropolis
Richard Clogg looks back at the life of Andreas Papandreou, the urbane Greek academic who became his country's populist prime minister. Andreas Papandreou currently lies in the Onasseion Heart...
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Vocational degrees
Elaine Williams reports on a group of Oxford students for whom the academic challenge is not the only test they have to endure. Simon Uttley is one of the University of Oxford's growing number of...
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Coming out of the broom closet
The ranks of modern witches are being swollen by new converts, but Diane Purkiss finds they are more likely to be concerned with green issues than black arts. As today, December 22, marks the winter...
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The simple truth about complexity
These days most disciplines keep themselves to themselves. They have their own theories, their own stars, their own bitter arguments. But every now and then a wave of ideas sweeps across the...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Phone rings. Could I come to the United States ambassador's residence on Wednesday for a meeting with Hillary Clinton? It will be coffee, cookies and a two-hour discussion of the problems...
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The learning business
Interest in particular aspects of management is fluctuating with the general climate. It almost concurs with the business cycle. Over the past decades, various themes have been in high demand on the...
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Fingers burned
When I talked to your reporter about the current Alfred/Asser dispute (THES, December 8), I asked that I be not quoted. I deplore the fact that I was in fact quoted, not once but twice. The effect is...
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When going gets tough
Don Foster MP, Liberal Democrat education spokesman, wrote to university vice chancellors and principals on October 30 enclosing a survey based on research he had conducted over the summer on levels...
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Term of office
I must ask you to bring to the attention of your readers a factual inaccuracy in Huw Richards's report "Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch" (THES, December 15). Mr Richards stated that Dr Ashworth...
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Binary code is on the wall
Books are too old-fashioned for today's students so let's give them computers instead, argues Vincent Mitchell. How many times do you hear academics complaining about the difficulty of persuading...
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New universities to ease crowding
The Sri Lankan government is to establish three new universities to increase the student intake to 15,000 per year. They will be at Anuradhapura, Ampara and Ratnapura. New faculties are also to open...
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Oil giant bids for campus
Corporations and multinationals can apply for licenses to set up private universities in Malaysia early in 1996, once legislation has been passed. Applications will be considered immediately after...
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Sporting types called to account
The United States education department, in a move that threatens to fire up the long-running controversy over sexism in sports, is to require colleges and universities to account publicly for what...
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Colleges face 15 per cent cuts
Universities in Canada's most populous province have been dealt a serious blow to their budgets by funding cuts of 15 per cent announced by the Ontario government. The Council of Ontario Universities...