Grasp the vocational nettle
Universities have a key role to play in teacher training despite moves to shift the initial responsibility on to schools, argues John Randall. Proposals to move the focus of initial teacher training...
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Quality warriors' battle of semantics
Natfhe welcomes proposals to reduce the duplication and bureaucracy of the present quality assurance system and supports an audit-based rather than assessment-based approach (THES, March 31). We...
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All Confucian phooey?
Asia continues its quest to find its own soul. For centuries, Asia has been at the receiving end of aggressive Western expansion which reached its height during the high period of colonial expansion...
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A contrary ventriloquist
For Oxford political theorist and former Thatcherite John Gray the central point is that there is no central point. David Walker reports on a self-confessed 'contrarian'. Philosophy is back. So...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...
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Thou shalt honour thy sources
Jim Parlour argues that if we are going to lecture students on the evils of plagiarism, we ought to be clear about what it is. Wolverhampton University has launched a poster campaign to "warn...
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Minister sells science to young
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a project to find out how 17 to 25-year-olds think science and technology will affect their future over the next two decades. Kicking off the initiative...
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Call for Royal Commission
The TUC voted this week for a Royal Commission on the future of higher education but not without reservations being expressed by Unison, the white collar union. David Triesman, general secretary of...
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HIV link confirmed
A 15-year study of haemophiliacs by the Medical Research Council has proved conclusively that HIV is the cause of AIDS. MRC researchers believe the findings will silence critics who have argued that...
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TEC success
Training and Enterprise Councils in England and Wales have made progress in securing jobs for trainees, according to Department of Education and Employment figures to be published this week. The...
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Student challenges Essex over Net rights
An Essex student's human rights database on the Internet has been disrupted during a six-month dispute with his university over control of the information. The university's registrar admits that a...
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Mururoa divides scientists
Scientists are polarised about possible environmental damage caused by French nuclear tests such as Tuesday's at Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. Most scientists think that the explosion will create an...
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Catching on
(Photograph) - Catching on: a passer-by admires a model of a Rolls-Royce for the 21st century made by Sean Henstridge, a graduate from the MA automotive design course at Coventry University, whose...
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Knights top pay league
Vice chancellors who have been knighted earn 31 per cent more than those without public honours, according to a report by economists on top academics' pay. It predicts that the new openness about...