Watchmaking industry
(Photograph) - Time warp: the clock is turning back in the watchmaking industry which is trying to cope with a resurgence in demand for traditional watches despite the advances made by quartz...
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Universities will cater for Renaissance Man
The university of tomorrow will not look unlike the great colleges of the Renaissance when there was a single community of international scholars linked by a common language, according to Sir Ron...
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Fellows get cash to collaborate
John Laver, chairman of the British Academy's humanities research board, last autumn wrote an article in The THES deploring the "funding starvation" which militated against collaborative research in...
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Ministry merger gets cool welcome
The heads of Scotland's higher education institutions have given a guarded welcome to the proposed merger of the Scottish Office education and industry departments. The Committee of Scottish Higher...
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Chemists dispense advice with pills
Chemists in south-east London are inviting patients to bring in their medicines for a health check as part of a King's College London research project. Seventeen dispensing chemists have joined the...
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Keating praises 'success' of education system
Australia's unique Higher Education Contribution Scheme has been one of the great participatory and democratic reforms of the federal Labor government, according to Prime Minister Paul Keating,...
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Minorities in US still lag behind
The 1954 Brown ruling outlawed discrimination in education in the United States but Lucy Hodges reports that minorities are finding there are still limits to 'equality' in the Land of the Free. Black...
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Better sight for poor eyes
Discovering the causes of vision impairment in Down's syndrome children is the aim of a Pounds 195,000 Medical Research Council-funded project under way at Cardiff University's department of...
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Affirmative action under pressure
American colleges and universities are unclear about their authority to give black-only scholarships following the Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a case involving the University of...
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Time to stop selling ourselves cheap
One does not have to be a Marxist to appreciate that one of the main marks of social valuation is money. For too long British academics have allowed themselves to be undervalued by undercharging for...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...
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Militant march
The hard left are no doubt celebrating this weekend. As they see it they have won two famous victories, one in respect of strike ballots in further education, the other in respect of students' grants...
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More money must be found
Expansion without more funding must stop now, says Ann Cotterrell. Quality is suffering through lack of funding. Lecturers are trying to maintain quality in the face of diminishing resources. It is...
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New university plan lives
Last week's news of the change of the academic partner for the University of Lincolnshire Project brings a guarantee of success. Under the previous model, with Nottingham Trent University, the...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. Early morning flight to Zurich delayed on the tarmac at Heathrow by "air traffic problems". Contemplate receding prospect of breakfast. Start reading book proofs which arrived yesterday....