Spare an ear for unease
This week spare a thought for the animals. The number of transgenic animals bred and experimented on is rocketing; the issue of the "oncomouse", bred to develop cancer is in the news again, as is the...
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Privates on parade
Private colleges in Malaysia will have to show that their courses meet national needs as one of five new conditions imposed by the education ministry, before it approves licences for new courses or...
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Oxbridge exaggerates the gender gap
Gillian Sutherland's observations on the alleged "gender deficit" (THES, October 13) contain many justified criticisms of assessment practices in universities. However, the premise that "girls...
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Euro-wide paralysis
Across Europe governments - and oppositions - are in trouble over the political and economic implications of the rapid transition to mass higher education. In just a few years aspirations have turned...
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Haggling in the marketplace
The animal spirits of education entrepreneurs have rewarded Iona Burchell with two degrees, debt and no job I noticed a job advertisement the other day in a local paper which proudly proclaimed that...
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Tesco, ergo sum
Richard A. Burridge argues that a crisis of value in higher education is shortchanging students and society. The academy in ancient Athens was at the edge of the agora so that its deliberations about...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...
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Treasury's shadow must not fall on pay
S P. Rouse is correct in the view that pay review bodies are unlikely to result in fair, professional pay levels for the higher education sector (THES, letters, October 20). It is questionable,...
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Key to the door for graduates
It is ironic that at the very moment when sweetness and light has broken out on all sides in what had become a largely sterile debate about how to ensure the quality of university teaching, the real...
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New ending from the history man
Francis Fukuyama tells David Walker why greater trust between people would lead to more prosperity. Alfred Schutz is not a name that appears among the many social thinkers listed in the compendious...
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Virtual politics, as seen on TV
Did Clinton's health care reforms perish in the glare of the TV lights? ask Edwin Diamond and Robert Silverman. At one point in the mid-1990s, the number one and number two bestselling books in the...
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Chart hits?
Some geographers are getting very excited over the uses of computerised mapping systems. Others are not convinced. John Davies reports. Cartographic wonder-tool or overhyped techical gizmo? Enhancer...
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Marks upgrade for 4,000
A new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of the disruption caused by building work on one of its campuses. The move by the University of Westminster,...
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Wanted: local heroes
The latest academic research has thrown up a a new link between those much debated phenomena; screen violence and rising crime rates. According to researchers at the London School of Economics the...
