Single is best in this affair
The Association of University Teachers today publishes its proposals for joint membership with the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education. It wants "open discussion at the...
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Food for the mind
It was a delight to read Kay-Tee Khaw's timely warning about unhealthy dietary habits ("Dying for a good fry-up", THES, February 9) as I tucked into the "full English breakfast" in our staff club at...
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Competition and the council
Roger Bowers, director of professional services at the British Council, (Letters, THES, February 2) asserts that Roger Iredale "is unduly influenced by . . . his interests as a member of the board of...
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Competition and the council
The article, "Mexico signs training deal", describing the British Council's successful sale of National Council of Vocational Qualifications' material there and elsewhere (THES, February 2), made...
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Competition and the council
It is premature and somewhat optimistic to imply that the Joint Action Plan signed by Prime Minister John Major and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo could result in $265 million of World Bank money...
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Australian academics snub Labor
Australia's Labor government has lost the support of the nation's 55,000 academics. For the first time in three federal elections, the academics' industrial organisation - the National Tertiary...
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The logic in loans
Apparently, "people think that if you talk about income-contingent loans frequently enough, the problem will go away" ("Loans idea 'irritates' Forth, THES, February 9). Who are these people? As far...
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Bemoan the folly of the hour
In the week that the Irish cabinet agreed on draft university legislation, Vincent McBrierty examines government participation in university affairs Political intrusion into the governance of...
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The end is nigh
John Leslie argues that if you view the certainty of global warming, the likelihood of nuclear war and the possibility of grey goo calamity from the perspective of the doomsday argument, nobody...
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The doctors' stroke of luck
Would you save the life of a dictator who was in the habit of arresting doctors whose prognoses displeased him? Zhores Medvedev speculates that Stalin's death was a mite premature At the beginning of...
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AUT calls for truce with Natfhe
The Association of University Teachers has today made public a strategy to bring to a halt two years of rivalry and disagreement with lecturers' union Natfhe by creating a single union for higher...
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Dining on data
The Scott report and its evidence promises to be a real feast for university departments to binge on. Joe Jacob examines the courses So at long last Sir Richard Scott has reported on the arms-to-Iraq...
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Funding link to quality broken
The assumed connection between funding and quality in higher education appears to have broken down, according to an analysis of teaching funding published by The THES this week. The analysis, by...