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...
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Spirit moves
If your diarist (THES, February 16, Antithesis) wishes to exalt religious fervour among the Christian sects at Leicester University, he should at least get the facts right. The events diary in...
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A rocky path for 'roll-over option'
Don't," said a particularly perceptive member of our university senate during a sombre debate on funding last week, "don't let us be trapped into thinking that there is no alternative to locally...
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Bright spark
He is a part-time electronic engineering student at the University of Plymouth. He is sponsored by British Aerospace. He has been awarded the City and Guilds Silver Medal for outstanding achievement...
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Unorthodox... and untenured
Sian Griffiths reports on the mystery surrounding the failure of a respected Muslim historian, Ayesha Jalal, to secure tenure at one of America's leading universities. Original", "very very good", "...
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Wasted talents
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Could do better." It is such a school report cliche that,...
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Africa's tusk master
Richard Leakey tells Andrew Robinson how a young bone peddler grew up to become a respected palaeoanthropologist and politician. "You say I'm a scientist and a conservationist and a politician. I'm...
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Safe but sorry?
Does CUP shy away from publishing controversial work? Georgina Born believes that in her case it did. A few years ago, I had an experience not unlike that of Anastasia Karakasidou, the anthropologist...
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Mounted police always get their 'radicals'
Canada. A student's curiosity has led him to break open a file revealing that the University of Saskatchewan in Canada was the subject of undercover surveillance for over 50 years. In the summer of...
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Oxford research job jitters
A survey of 500 contract re-searchers at Oxford University has uncovered "serious and damaging shortcomings" in their employment. According to the Association of University Teachers, Oxford received...
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Disharmony over music assessment
Higher education quality chiefs have come under fire over their handling of complaints about the allegedly "unprofessional" and "confrontational" style of funding council assessors. Royal Holloway...
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Cuts confrontation
Canada. Cuts confrontation: students angered by spending cuts smashed windows and stormed the Ontario legislature building in Toronto after breaking through a phalanx of police.
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Old German jewel in new turmoil
Stone book in stone hand, William von Humboldt stares out at Berlin's traffic from the university he founded more than 180 years ago as a universitas litterarum striving to give a humanist education...
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Graduate wastage reaches crisis point
Italy. Late last year, while Italy's front pages were devoted to the daily twists of the ongoing political chaos, a relatively unnoticed survey revealed the equally profound crisis facing the country...