Call for more cash to go east
Ex-research minister Paul Kruger has called on the German federal government to provide special funds in order to boost the expansion of higher education and industrial research in eastern Germany,...
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Bonn is blamed for German retreat
The president of Germany's Rectors' Conference, Hans-Uwe Erichsen, has blamed state and federal governments for the country's loss of its international lead in qualifications and research. Addressing...
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Island sun, sea, sand and . . . studying
Erasmus students on their year abroad on the island of Reunion are tanned and happy. This French Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean is what one student describes as an "unknown tropical paradise...
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Taking a lead in lecturer training
In your report of the Confederation of British Industry conference on National Vocational Qualifications for teachers and lecturers (THES, May 26) you quote Dominic Cadbury's statement to the effect...
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A bid for more forethought
The Higher Education Funding Council for England recently invited all higher education institution to submit bids for projects to extend the teaching year with a third semester. This is not the first...
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For the records
May I suggest that in between phrases like "I am looking towards running the library far more as a business unit," Emma Robinson, head of the University of London Library, also notes her "passion for...
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Targets moving the wrong way
If at first you don't succeed - you don't succeed." This is the reality of the British system of education and training for many millions of people. The revised National Education and Training...
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The speech writer
Lucy Hodges meets Deborah Tannen, the sociolinguist whose studies of how people talk to one another have made her an American household name. Sellotaped to the door of Deborah Tannen's office at...
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The classic dilemma
The discussions on the state of classics by Peter Jones and Nick Tate (THES, May 19) are the latest addition to the decades-long concern as to whether the subject has a future. But what is the "...
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Past imperfect, future tense
Historians in post-communist Eastern Europe are busy reclaiming the past. Huw Richards reports. A Russian joke of pre-glasnost vintage tells of Napoleon, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun...
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Gene team detects cancer clues
Scientists believe that they have traced a hereditary link to breast cancer and can predict which women can tolerate a stronger blast of radiation. Aisling Irwin reports. The photograph was taken in...
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A Victorian plot to drive down wages
Kathryn Ecclestone's letter (THES, May 26) is a welcome, commonsense response to the wilder advocates of "NVQs for everything" but she holds back from the deserved total condemnation of the idea....
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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Man: the story so far
Are humans different from animals in degree or in kind? Tim Ingold argues that the new Darwinism, far from offering a solution, is riddled with contradictions. Do human beings differ from other...
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A theatre of arrogance
Jonathan Ree describes how E. P. Thompson's savage attack on Parisian intellectuals was a calculated caricature that misjudged the capacity for irony of his readers. On the other hand," people will...