Character reference in Chinese reforms
Earl Kinmonth (THES, February 3) tries to discredit my views on script reform in China by accusing me of being a decrepit "believer in Mao". Obviously, it is not I but Kinmonth who "seems to be...
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Universities as a focus for dissent
Scott Wilson's lively review of Alan Sinfield's Cultural Politics - Queer Reading, in last week's THES raises a fundamental question about the role of the university. Wilson questions Sinfield's...
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Shoot-out at outlaw university
One dead, at least 20 seriously injured, several beaten and an unspecified number of arrests made up the initial casualty list from the opening of the academic year at the outlawed University of...
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Skewed selection needs rethink
The universities' admissions system is unfair and must be changed say Chris McManus and Peter Richards. Back in 1961 the Universities' Central Council on Admissions was a brilliant idea. Instead of...
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She who makes holy men fume
A standard bearer for equality or a self-publicist employing fatwa as career move? Simon Targett meets the exiled Bangladeshifeminist writer Taslima Nasreen. It was a hush-hush, mum's the word sort...
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Sum mistake?
Margaret Brown asks if there is any truth in the perception that maths standards are declining. Mathematics rarely excites the media, yet The Guardian's recent front page headline stating that school...
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The mathematician and the mystic
Andrew Robinson and Dipankar Home shed some light on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth,...
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Cambridge and Scots sight new astro turf
Cambridge and Edinburgh universities could take over the Royal Observatories under proposals being considered by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Exploratory talks between the...
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`Lazy' teachers accused
German students have accused their medical professors of "teaching fraud" after an investigation at Hamburg University showed that 88 per cent do not teach the legal minimum of four hours a week. A...
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NVQ vision plea for consensus
The Government call for the completion of the national vocational framework has today been answered by the publication by the Employment Department of its long-awaited strategy paper on higher level...
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Ill-health delays student loan report
The long-awaited report by the National Audit Office on irregularities in the Student Loans Company has been held up because auditors have been unable to quiz Ron Harrison, chief executive, due to...
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Mentor mugging
The Educational Institute of Scotland has challenged the Government's Pounds 2 million teacher mentor scheme, set for Scottish secondary schools this autumn. The EIS says there is no educational case...
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Governors retreat
Three governors sacked by education secretary Gillian Shephard from Wilmorton College, Derby, have called off their legal threat to the Further Education Funding Council. They abandoned a plan to...
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Jobs safeguard
Lecturers' union Natfhe says a test case has established key safeguards for university staff jobs threatened when courses are franchised. In the case of a University of Humberside lecturer, who lost...
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Nursing research centre set for launch
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is joining forces with the Royal College of Nursing to set up a new policy centre for nursing research. Nick Black, reader in public health medicine...