Old punk seeks life on the street
Malcolm McLaren, the father of punk, may be seen more often in lecture halls than the King's Road these days, but his inspiration is still drawn from the streets. He talks to Kam Patel. Malcolm...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The extent of discrimination against women that still exists in higher education in the UK is underlined by the accounts of two new women professors' fight for recognition (THES, July 26). As you...
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Foecke fights on
A former student lost his libel case against Bristol University this week when he could not produce a Pounds 25,000 security against future legal costs. Francis Foecke, 38, has battled against...
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No more 'good' or 'bad' Muslims
Jennie Bristow unpicks the attitude of the National Union of Students to 'extremist' Muslim fundamentalists. On Monday July 22, the Runnymede Trust, the independent thinktank on race relations,...
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Born to be wild
(Photograph) - Born to be wild: Jennifer Ward, a third-year zoology student at Glasgow University, studies a 100-year-old wildcat in the university's zoology museum before embarking on a year-long...
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Marriages made in heaven?
The new Association of Colleges is launched this week and the Further Education Funding Council gets a new head next month. Harriet Swain assesses their chances of shaping the future of further...
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Kirk targets lifelong learning
The Church of Scotland hopes to implement a voucher scheme for continuing professional development which its ministers could use for postgraduate qualifications, writes Olga Wojtas. Sandy McDonald,...
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Principal named
The principal of Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, has been replaced. In a surprise move, Graham McConnell left his post by mutual agreement with the college governors last week and...
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Malaysia investigates franchise bribe claims
The Malaysian government is facing calls for a public inquiry into the marketing practices of institutions keen to sell overseas franchise courses to the country's students. The inquiry could have...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Refreshed by a weekend away from my computer, I am awoken as ever by the noise of trucks passing my bedroom window on their way to Spitalfields market in east London. Even the double glazing...
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Prison sentence for flag burning
A Belarusian pro-democracy activist, Andrey Romasheuski, deputy chairman of the Beer-Lovers' party, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with a student demonstration in...
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Debts mount up
The Student Loans Company had received more than 1.8 million applications for loans by mid-1995 and Pounds 1.8 billion of repayments was still outstanding, according to a National Audit Office report...
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Wood that they had their just desserts
I am deeply conscious of the high honour and distinction of being selected to provide a text for a Laurie Taylor column, but please allow me to point out that I am not at present vice chancellor of...
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Dead Clever? Terminally unfunny
I have never before encountered such a lot of malodorous claptrap (Dead Clever by Ted Nield, THES, July 19). The characters are crudely drawn: Toni in particular appears to be the two-dimensional...