Party win leads to musical chairs
Higher degrees in Bulgaria are suspended temporarily because of a new law which opposition MPs say will lead to the "recommunisation of higher learning". The law repeals an Act of December 1992...
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Injustice for the probation system
Home Office proposals to remove the training of probation officers from universities, reported in The THES two weeks ago, have wider implications. They may, if implemented, threaten other forms of...
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Drawing the line on classes of degree
The tragicomic scenes being played out at the University of East Anglia (THES, March 10) again confirm the need for a thorough revision of final degree assessment practice. As both university teacher...
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Debenture stuck on the slipway
In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...
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Neural nonsense
While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...
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Union demands a say in reforms
Academic staff are threatening to boycott the transfer of university degrees to New Zealand's qualifications framework unless they are involved in the administrative structure. The Association of...
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Evidence links BSE to humans
Researchers at Imperial College, London this week revealed the first direct evidence appearing to show that mad cows disease has been transmitted to humans. The study, carried out by a team led by...
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V-cs wary of central control
Vice chancellors fear that the creation of a single qualifications authority, heralded in this week's Queen's Speech, could give ministers the power to approve some higher education awards. Plans to...
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Federal farewell
Britain should preserve its free trade status in Europe but cut loose from the tentacles of political union, argues Patrick Minford. John Major went to war with Europe over our cows. With him marched...
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Don's Diary
Saturday The entire team has arrived now. Very odd for a Scot who has lived most of his adult life among the English to be surrounded in this distant Bedouin village in Jordan by so many unrestrained...
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Major medicine
The British dental and medical associations are supporting vice chancellors' campaign for government cash to plug the Pounds 4.8 million pay gap for medical academics. The government has refused a...
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Anyone but Ludwig
Aberdeen University's series of free lunchtime musical recitals took an intriguing turn this week with cellist Alan Brodie, flautist Tim Dale, and pianist Peter Shand presenting a programme entitled...
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Student vote
The National Union of Students Scotland has launched a voter registration campaign aimed at 300,000 students. The union is sending out 50,000 postcard electoral registration forms, and printing...
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One, two, three - Foresight
Foresight has sent a message across the world that the UK has an outstandingly innovative science base, says William Stewart. It is almost three years since the Government launched its Technology...