Bard barb
Ann Thompson (THES, June 23) calls my book The Real Shakespeare "pugilistic" and so forth. But I am dealing with people like Ann Thompson, whose 1984 Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. With my colleague Dave Hill give a talk to student teachers, teachers and lecturers at Soweto College of Education on politics and education in Britain. In the ensuing discussion, those...
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Gloom trimming for job adverts
There is a growing literature on the marketing of higher education in general, and individual universities and colleges in particular. It is another side of the "higher education as business" thesis...
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A measure of freedom
James Tooley explains how the return of IQ testing could liberate education from credentialism. It would be disingenuous to say that I wrote an essay mentioning IQ without thinking that it would get...
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Mobile phone blinds the stars
Mobile phones are posing a threat to astronomers' research into the Big Bang and the death of stars. The next generation of phones is to use a low-orbit satellite network which has several frequency...
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Opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building
(Photograph) - Round trip: architect Richard Brearley puts Gillian Shephard, the Education and Employment Secretary, in the picture on the official opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building at the...
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PhDs in demand
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council is planning a 50 per cent increase in the number of PhD studentships it funds to meet demand from students, em-ployers, universities and industry....
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GNVQs welcomed
Universities and industry have signalled their eagerness to recruit students holding new "vocational A levels". An increasing number of higher education institutions are writing General National...
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College growth probed by FEFC
A college in Cheshire which has achieved growth of more than 266 per cent over the past 11 months is being investigated by the Further Education Funding Council as a result of its prolific...
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Christopher Bigsby
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Presented in style
(Photograph) - Presented in style: Beauty therapy student Gemma James from Oxford College gets her face painted at LASER's garden party for further education colleges held in Bedford Square, London...
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Fraud squad for scientists
The Royal College of Physicians is looking at the practicalities of setting up a fraud squad for British science. An interdisciplinary group is to put ideas into a consultative paper to go out in...
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Genes checked
Mass genetic screening for common diseases, including diabetes, is only years away but the benefits compare poorly with simply encouraging healthy behaviour, Angus Clarke, senior lecturer in clinical...
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Dundee takes cake
Computer studies at Dundee, judged unsatisfactory during the 1993/94 quality assessment round, has now been reassessed as satisfactory by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Glasgow and...
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Alan Ryan