East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...
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A little inflation could go a long way
Though shifted from its historic springtime niche in what may have been Norman Lamont's one lasting achievement as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget Day remains one of the great rituals of British...
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The all-new hot desk shuffle
How many hours a week do you actually spend at your desk? Research, lecturing, meetings and collaboration with industry are rarely desk-based. A lecturer may spend relatively little time at the desk...
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Obliged to stay silent for the group
Your editorial of November 11 makes a welcome call for the defence of tolerance in universities: yet, as it suggests, this will not be an easy argument to sustain. On the one hand, defence of...
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Keepers of the olive grove
John Rear leads with his chin when he writes about managerialism and academic freedom in higher education (THES, October 21). He had realised that at the Council for Academic Autonomy he was being...
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Policy studies have come of age
It is only a little more than ten years ago that British academics were lamenting the paucity of education policy studies in this country and contrasting this sorry state of affairs with the...
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Still the small voice
Universities are the unsung heroes of the National Health Service. They work with it to provide all undergraduate medical education. They provide most of the research which the NHS will use to treat...
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Age-old problems
History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Arthur Marwick has (in the past) chided me and others...
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Nuptial match
The honeymoon period in further education is drawing to a close." Thus Roger Ward, chief executive of the College Employers' Forum last week. What honeymoon? If the past year has been a honeymoon for...
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Improving marine safety
Reducing high levels of deaths and injuries at sea is the aim of a Pounds 1.5 million maritime safety research centre being established at Cardiff University's department of maritime studies. An...
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Art surgeons
(Photograph) - Students from Wolverhampton University school of education art have been invited to produce a ceramic wall panel for the Victor Goldman Unit at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London....
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Colleges pay the price for degrees
Almost a fifth of further education colleges are now offering degree or sub-degree level courses supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. But the funding mechanism was not...
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Glasnost comes to Bournemouth
A certain amount of caginess is inevitable in new vice chancellors as they accustom themselves to their role as half human and half the embodiment of a large and complex academic institution. But...
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Child care run like fast-food industry
Child welfare in the UK has adopted the style of the fast food industry, according to a leading social policy researcher. David Thorpe, senior lecturer in applied social science at Lancaster...