Dole tossed in history's trashbin
Clinton's star waxes and the CIA's wanes but Blair has not yet eclipsed Thatcher in the American consciousness. Huw Richards savours the debates at the American Political Science Association...
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Workload and redundancies exercise brains
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The Dearing inquiry working group on the use of...
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Fingered green
Sir Ronald Oxburgh, rector of Imperial College and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, told in his presidential address of an elderly lady who asked him whether he...
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Cheap solution ruled out
Pressure from English university heads for a cheaper quality assessment system could lead to its disintegration, Paul Clark, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's new director of teaching...
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Referee blows whistle on war
SANJUAN. In the remote pueblos of the Guatemalan highlands people have yet to hear of the peace accords now being signed by the government and guerrilla leaders. They are still living with the terror...
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Prisoners boost figures
If Tim Cornwell (THES, August 9) had asked "how" or "why" the historically black University of Maryland Eastern Shore had most recently enrolled some 3,000 students, he might have been surprised to...
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Military bans trade unions for academics
LAGOS. Optimism about a possible settlement of Nigeria's five-month university strike was crushed at the end of August by the sudden proscription of university trade unions. The move followed a...
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Koreas wed over butter but divorced over guns
Academics come to their subjects for a variety of reasons. For Don Malatesta of Norwich University, Vermont, the stimulus came from five years of service as a United States air force pilot in Korea...
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Quality agency gets rough ride
The Higher Education Quality Council is in trouble and its chief executive is trying to bale out. But the question of how to assess quality in universities is still unresolved. The Higher Education...
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Medics take tobacco road
British American Tobacco is funding around ten medical research projects in British universities, medical schools and general practices. It is spending Pounds 500,000 a year on such projects, around...
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Vice squad
The football squad at Clemson University, Alabama returned to action last weekend after an off-season in which eight players were arrested, two were expelled from the squad after being caught in...
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Burgess takes over AUT autumn military strategy
The Association of University Teachers' new president, Philip Burgess, took office this week and was plunged immediately into drawing up battle plans for industrial action. Mr Burgess took over...
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Pay review bodies offer hidden solution
Martin Harris (THES, August 30) presents a cogent analysis of the plight universities face regarding academics' pay. As he says, this arises because they have more than satisfied the Government's two...
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New angles on old rules
Paul Ernest argues that mathematical truths are invented not discovered and shows why 1 + 1 does not always add up to 2. Is science a rational description of the world converging on the truth, or is...