Gordon Kirk (THES, January 6), raises two issues which need to be resolved regarding the external examiner system -- the duality of role as external examiner and course consultant, and the duality of...
One of the effects of the Thatcherian managerial revolution in the new universities has been to create a class of senior-level managers which awards itself generous "remission" from teaching. In many...
Stella Hughes talks to Isabelle Stengers, the Belgian scientist who dared to doubt. In the often acrimonious dispute over the social role of science, few enter the fray having chosen laughter as...
According to political scientist Yves Meny, the recent corruption scandals in France have very deep roots. Anne Corbett reports. As the wave of French corruption allegations known as "Les Affaires"...
And hello to the director of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust, Mr Bullock.
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
Literary sideswipes reach three figures with the help of Walter Redfern from the French department at Reading University, who spotted Salvador Dali in characteristically bizarrely scatalogical mode...
The current debate about the university year, provoked by the move towards modular courses and semester-based teaching, has focused on an early September start. But why is nobody taking seriously the...
Three black South Africans who stabbed, stoned and bludgeoned American exchange student Amy Biehl to death in a Cape Town shanty town last year have each been sentenced to 18 years in jail for what...
Unemployed graduates in London's East End will soon be able to enrol on an innovative job-seeking scheme run by the local Training and Enterprise Council. Gradplan is being offered by London East TEC...
The external examiner system should continue, according to a survey by the Open University's Validation Services of the 50 institutions it accredits. The survey, Using External Examiners, found that...
Michael Burleigh on the reaction of German health professionals and relatives to the murder of their mentally ill by the Nazis. My work on Nazi Germany began with a book on the supine involvement of...
MONDAY afternoon: Receive my first set of senior papers to grade. Randomly choose one to read. The title, "Orlando ain't no chick" reminds me that this is definitely, as they would say in these parts...