Calling Germany
Birmingham University has established 16 scholarships for German students in a bid to attract highly qualified candidates across a wide range of disciplines, from African history to metallurgy. They...
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Lecturer charged
A 32-year-old Oxford lecturer has been charged with the theft of a first edition book by Sir Isaac Newton from the Christ Church College library. The book, which dates back to 1687, is believed to be...
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Ex-lecturer to head troubled college
Derby College Wilmorton has appointed a former lecturer as principal. David Croll left the college in 1983, before it was re-organised as a tertiary college and before the high-profile inquiry which...
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Cash injection
Aberdeen University has won Pounds 300,000 from the international pharmaceutical group Glaxo Wellcome for a diabetes laboratory within its new institute of medical sciences, which will bring together...
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Pounds 6m summer bonus for six
Half a dozen higher education institutions are likely to share the Pounds 6 million on offer for pilot programmes testing the use of the summer semester. Only around ten bids to explore the...
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Peers protest at threat to academic freedom
Peers joined forces with vice chancellors last week to fend off a new threat to academic freedom. Members of the House of Lords used the second reading of the Disability Discrimination Bill on Monday...
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Saturday shopping
The most controversial statement at this year's Natfhe conference in Torquay came not from a delegate or speaker but from the mayor of Torbay. In her opening speech she said: "I see there are a lot...
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South Africa learns from De Montfort
Support for a national system for monitoring academic standards was strong among senior South African higher education managers at a Cape Town conference recently. Most of the 118 delegates to the...
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Watchdogs to keep regional teeth
A new attempt is being made to reform quality control in United States colleges and universities following the near-revolution which greeted the first effort. Such was the outcry at the initial...
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Fractal flourishes end in musical discord
John Barrow suggests that musical compositions, when viewed from the appropriate perspective, embody 1/f noise characteristics (THES, June 25), a conclusion drawn from data given by Voss and Clarke...
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Size important but not the only criterion
Your article on Southampton Institute's discussion document The Future of the University Sector (THES, June 23) inaccurately stated that the institute had proposed that all higher education...
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Appraisal imposed on Australians
A national inquiry into academic appraisal has recommended that all Australian universities be required to implement schemes so that staff are subject to regular reviews of their performance. The...
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Exams with a ten-minute rule
Gavin Fairbairn questions whether dyslexic students should be admitted to primary teacher training courses. Twice recently I have invigilated exams in which one or more students have been allocated...
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Languages of common-sense
Nick Tate (THES, May 19) and Richard Gaskin (THES letters, June 16) call for more Latin in schools. Richard Gaskin offers the best reason for learning Latin, which is to produce scholars capable of...
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Lese we forget
Your headline last week, "Southampton bids for university status", is a clear case of lese-majeste. On April 29 1952 Her Majesty The Queen granted a charter, and Article 1 of this charter states: "...