Telescope is focus of row
The projected site of the world's largest optical telescope has become the focus of an international dispute about diplomatic immunity. Ricardo Giacconi, director of the European Southern Observatory...
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Medical barons on exam fixing charges
Eleven professors at Rome's Sapienza University medical school are officially under investigation for allegedly "fixing" competitive exams for medical chairs. According to the Rome judge who is...
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Crying out for Sir Ron
The vital words have been uttered: send for Sir Ron. At long last the Government has noticed, what people all around have been saying for years, that there is a consensus that "the qualifications...
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Oxbridge's law of averages
Gerard McCrum (THES, March 31) has correctly noted that women at Oxford and Cambridge are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. A principal reason for this is that far fewer women...
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Trash artists connect to `Othernet'
Collaboration between academics and an artist has given rise to a new concept of art as communication. The project is an inter-disciplinary, artistic interaction, crossing the frontiers of sociology...
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Grasp the vocational nettle
Universities have a key role to play in teacher training despite moves to shift the initial responsibility on to schools, argues John Randall. Proposals to move the focus of initial teacher training...
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Quality warriors' battle of semantics
Natfhe welcomes proposals to reduce the duplication and bureaucracy of the present quality assurance system and supports an audit-based rather than assessment-based approach (THES, March 31). We...
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All Confucian phooey?
Asia continues its quest to find its own soul. For centuries, Asia has been at the receiving end of aggressive Western expansion which reached its height during the high period of colonial expansion...
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A contrary ventriloquist
For Oxford political theorist and former Thatcherite John Gray the central point is that there is no central point. David Walker reports on a self-confessed 'contrarian'. Philosophy is back. So...
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Is natural selection the sole driver of evolution at the level of genes?
Steven Rose: Evolution is a fact; natural selection is a theory about how evolution occurs. But there are many factors that lead to evolutionary change and natural selection - and competition for...
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Flying kites for adult learners
This is adult learning week. A wide range of events, activities, open days and media programmes have been taking place throughout the country to help to focus attention on adult learning. What is...
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Don't ask, don't get
When the vice chancellor of an Irish university ran into a prominent alumnus, he asked him a question that had been bothering him for some time. "I heard you gave a major gift to another university...
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Ancient foundation courses
Even a superficial acquaintance with England's past brings with it a realisation of the central role of Latin and of ancient Greece and Rome in the development of our culture. Shakespeare, Milton, T...
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Unions urge colleges to accept redundancies
Further education unions have this week held talks with two Scottish colleges in the hope of staving off compulsory redundancies. Both Falkirk and Jewel and Esk Valley Colleges are facing cuts as the...