Eternal struggle for expansion
There were two education ministers in the Conservative Cabinet -- and the senior of them was not prepared to contemplate a higher education policy not endorsed by the University Grants Committee. By...
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Legal minimum
New guidelines for minimum areas of knowledge, understanding and intellectual skills, proposed for law degrees by the Law Society and the Council of Legal Education, have been approved by the Lord...
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Scottish HE libraries to stack up on cash
Scottish higher education institutions are to spend more than Pounds 33 million to improve their libraries. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is providing more than Pounds 16 million to...
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John Moores gets greener
Liverpool John Moores University has adopted a comprehensive policy statement aimed at making its activities more environmentally-friendly. Less waste, more cycling and fewer parking spaces could be...
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A degree of protest
(Photograph) - Carson is so incensed by the decision of Queen's University Belfast to cease playing the national anthem at future graduation ceremonies that he has returned his PhD and Master's...
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Fallout
(Photograph) - Fallout: after the Chernobyl disaster, the Sakharov Institute of Radioecology was set up in Minsk, Belarus. Dmitri Lsovsky, a student at the Institute, is visiting Kingston University...
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Ward award
The New Year's honours list contained a special surprise for lecturers' union leaders. Among those honoured with a CBE for services to higher education was their favourite adversary, Roger Ward, the...
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Cool for Catz
Next time the Higher Education Funding Council for England seeks a new chief, tipsters would be well advised to keep an eye open for the chaps from Catz. Departing chief executive Graeme Davies...
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Dwarves at the feet of giants
An enduring reminder to scholars of the humanities is set in the windows of Chartres cathedral. On top of each of the four great Old Testament prophets stands a small evangelist, using his prophet as...
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Finding one's own Nietzche
May I correct a matter of fact in the review by David Albury (THES, December 23) of my book Degrees of Difference, higher education in the 1990s? Far from seeking to "silence" the interviewees quoted...
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Conflict not one of culture
In his article (THES, December 9) on the conflict between the late Trevor Aston and me Valentine Cunningham says, "Dover confesses to having no visual sense at all". I have never made such a "...
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Speculations on accumulation
Credit transfer is flexible, but the cost is daunting. Last year's report by Professor David Robertson, Choosing to Change -- Extending access, choice and mobility in higher education, is arguably...
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Labour late to the Conservative tax
The latest U-turn from the Labour Party on a graduate tax is surely one of its most spectacular policy reversals in recent days. Conservative Students have campaigned consistently over the past six...
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Surfing on the waves from Durham
Scientists concerned about science's relationship with society feel that those best placed to illuminate it are studying irrelevant issues instead. Meanwhile, sociologists say they already have...