'The only option is to go private'
Excellence plus full funding could equal a degree costing Pounds 50,000 or more. Ron Johnston says. The vice chancellors of Cambridge, Edinburgh, University College London and Warwick have declared "...
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Scots resist joint funding idea
THE Association of University Teachers Scotland is opposing any move by a modified Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to fund further education. The colleges are funded directly by the...
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Moral guru for Dearing
Sir Ron Dearing has enlisted a moral philosopher to help his committee of inquiry into higher education provide ethical guidelines for universities, he revealed this week. Briefing the Council for...
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Kenya calls in Scotland Yard
Students and lecturers at the University of Nairobi have called on the British government to bring in Scotland Yard detectives to investigate the death of a student leader which has sparked off...
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Physicists query profit of industrial work
THE FINANCIAL returns from industrial collaboration rarely justify the efforts involved, according to most physicists in a report commissioned by the Institute of Physics. The survey, carried out by...
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Metal aids cancer treatment
A RADICAL new approach to controlling radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer patients could be ready for clinical use within two years. Researchers at Coventry University's multi-disciplinary...
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Epitaph for a rabbi
I am astonished that The THES permitted Geoffrey Alderman, in his personal campaign to discredit the office of chief rabbinate and to malign Reform Judaism, the use of its columns to abuse his...