Hail the kings of accountancy age
Charles Leonard argues that UK industry is struggling because it is frightened of taking risks. I was recently interviewed for a senior management post at a university on the south coast but was...
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Exile who came in from the cold
When David Johnson fled South Africa in 1983, he left his heart behind but had no idea of the part he would play in the rebirth of his nation. Now a lecturer at the University of Bristol and an...
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No confidence vote
Gerald Stockdale, principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education, suffered another setback this week when the college's academic board registered a vote of no confidence in his leadership. The...
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Alzheimer's genetic statistics 'flawed'
Genetic statistics available to the United States public to predict their likelihood of getting Alzheimer's disease are wrong, it has been claimed. If true, this means that people are receiving an...
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Some Rhodes lead to freedom
The Anti-Apartheid Movement's archive has found a home. Simon Targett reports. Cecil Rhodes was not noted for his anti-apartheid credentials. President of the Cape Colony, head of the De Beers mining...
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Last straws and red herrings
The report (THES, June 28) of financial concerns over initial teacher training contained a number of inaccuracies and red herrings. There is no doubt that providers of primary initial teacher...
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Russians dying for a drink
Are more Russian men dying from alcoholism because the government finds sozzled citizens easier to control? Zhores Medvedev reports on a country awash with alcohol. In 1988 1.57 million people died...
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Mown down
Tragedy has struck at the Australian National University. Flotsam and Jetsam were elected visiting fellows with a free grant of grass earlier this year. But the tenure of the two lawn-mowing rabbits...
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Franchise brochures jumped gun
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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A voice for lost innocence
For over 20 years some 100 children in one county were sexually abused while in care. Jane Tunstill was a member of the inquiry into what went wrong, but its report was never published. Now at last,...
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Fact is, there are some absolutes
The distrust expressed within the social sciences towards the physical sciences - and, by extension, towards their practitioners - is profound. As someone from a physical science background (medicine...
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Bali, Hi!
Anyone wishing to heap either congratulations or opprobrium on the head of Ted Nield, who has taken the small step from composing Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press releases to...
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Doctoral supervision may be in trouble
John McGinnety (THES,July 5) like Anthony Cohen, misses the point made in the Higher Education Funding Council for England "Harris Review", the Royal Society "Harrison Report" and indeed the United...
