Queen's elects child of the non-famous
The son and daughter of two high-profile Ulster politicians have lost their first election - for president of the student union at Queen's University. Deirdre McAliskey, daughter of renowned...
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Palms of peace
(Photograph) - Palms of peace: Thousands of students, their hands painted white to symbolise their condemnation of violence, gathered outside the Autonomous University of Madrid last week on the day...
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A bitter cuppa for lecturers
As controller of lecturers' teaching performance, Stephen Bretschneider, head of administration at Hamburg's smallest university, had few friends. So when his dead body was discovered by a hapless...
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Exploits of an oil-slick spotter
An oil-slick tracker invented by a Southampton University scientist had its baptism by fire this week when it was called into action in the clean-up operation involving stricken tanker Sea Empress...
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Paris campus in asbestos risk
Asbestos contamination at the Paris university campus of Jussieu requires Pounds 100 million to fix and despite official recognition of the urgency, the French government is dragging its feet....
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Diggers accused of grave robbery
Attempts by Israel's religious political parties to increase their influence over archaeological digs have been checked following pressure from Shimon Peres's leftwing coalition partners. Moves had...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
Effective representation of higher education staff is indeed essential in these challenging times (THES leader, February 16). The central issue in building greater unity is what structures among...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
In August of this year, University College Salford, whose staff are represented by Natfhe, will merge with the University of Salford, whose academic staff are members of AUT. Although there have been...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
Your leader identifies well the problems created by the failure to unify the two parts of the higher education service, even though the historical origin of the separation is clear. There is, however...
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Knight of the false table
Peter Knight's table of funding per part-time student (THES, February 16) is based on false comparisons. He correctly points out that the volume measure for part-time students treats a two-hour-per-...
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Paper tiger roars again
It is quite natural for Damien Keown (THES, February 9 "Caxton: is he dead or merely resting?") to remark, as have other reviewers of the book, on the irony that a "subversive proposal" for paperless...
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Dream signing for Harvard
Henry Louis Gates, the literary critic and New Yorker writer, called it the "coup of the coups" when Harvard University finally poached William Julius Wilson from the University of Chicago. Professor...
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Blarney obscures peace process
Your editorial "Study The Question" (THES, February 16) encouraging a role for academia in the resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland was at once both admirable and depressing. You were...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
I was bemused to read Alison Utley's article which referred to the AUT's strategy to create a single union for higher education. The presumption behind the editorial was that only academic staff...
