O come all ye barbarians
I find myself time and time again at odds with the deep conservatism that begins to appear more and more like a virus infecting clerics who work in institutions of higher education in Britain. I am...
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Bottom line on chairs
Helena Kennedy's excellent article raises some crucial issues pertinent to the invisibility of women in senior university posts. The stock response of many of the male academics who continue to...
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We'll never stand alone
In his article on probation training (THES, November 3) Mike Nellis is correct to assert that probation training should remain within higher education. However, his view that the arguments against...
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Happy with the reign in Spain
It is 20 years next week since Franco gasped his last and relinquished his hold on Spain. But although his democratic successors have been accused of corruption, Huw Richards finds little desire in...
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Poetry in motion
Lucy Hodges meets Paul Muldoon, the Heaney acolyte who wants to rearrange furniture in our heads. Paul Muldoon looked a bit the worse for wear. He was on a poetry-reading tour of the United Kingdom,...
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College standards satisfy inspector
Despite an 11 per cent efficiency gain and 5 per cent growth over the last year, standards of teaching in further education colleges have been judged satisfactory by their chief inspector whose...
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Mouse patent contested
The patenting of a mouse genetically engineered to develop cancer will be contested in the European Patent Office next week by 17 groups including a United Kingdom coalition of animal welfare...
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Bloodshed at Nigerian university
The Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria's largest higher education establishment, has been closed following the murder of Bamidele Bandipo, director of the university's teaching hospital. Angry...
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HM loan arranger
The Government's plans to privatise the student loans scheme were confirmed in the Queen's Speech this week. Her Majesty said legislation would be introduced to enable students to choose between...
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Area Boy
(Photograph) - Area Boy: Leeds University is sponsoring a new play by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, Nobel prizewinner and Leeds graduate, which is premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse until...
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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find:girls/computer crazy/any where?
Are girls put off computing by the nerdy image of an anorak-wearing boffin who communes with a terminal and is, above all, male? The answer, according to John Wilkes, senior lecturer in computing at...
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Truly civil engineers
An initiative to get more scientists and engineers into a broader range of jobs in the civil service is being planned by the Government and will be included in a white paper to be published later...
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Very enterprising
South Thames Training and Enterprise Council, which went into receivership in 1994, was paid around Pounds 10 million for running courses for non-existent courses, according to the National Audit...
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