Merged ministry triggers alarm
The Government's decision to mix employment and education portfolios has met with a cool reception The reshuffle of ministers' jobs in the new Department for Education and Employment came under fire...
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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...
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Unlucky break
As an unlucky applicant, I wonder why out of 62 awards for the 1995/96 British Academy Research Leave Scheme in the Humanities, only three were awarded to applicants from new universities. Jean-...
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Perfection and the opinion poll
Huw Richards's otherwise reasonable write-up of the French election (THES, May 5) contains the statement: "after getting their (opinion poll) findings as spectacularly wrong as their British...
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Singing tune of Return to Fender
I attended the Association of University Administrators' Conference in Bristol last month. The prospect of so many university administrators all together would be daunting to the most resilient vice...
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Discoursing with intent
Sociology, its critics claim, is wedded to jargon and unloved by the society it purports to understand. But Michle Barrett argues that the discipline still has much to say. The link between academic...
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Hot on Chile, cool on Rio
Huw Richards talks to Victor Bulmer-Thomas, the organiser of this week's ILAS conference on the Latin American economy. Rarely has that hackneyed formulation "First the good news, then the bad" been...
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Hot air and global warming
Ragnar Lofstedt asks if grand environmental UN conclaves really achieve anything. Global warming is in the news again. Last month signatories to the United Nations convention on climate change came...
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A city of lost hopes
Amela Sadagic on the war in her beloved Sarajevo. The day I left Sarajevo in April 1992 I thought I would have the kind of weekend I always had: a short visit to my parents' home 70km away in the...
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What is quantum mechanics?
Belying its reputation for arcane irrelevance, quantum mechanics addresses problems of great importance for practical human activity. It explains, for example, the rigidity of chairs and tables...
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Alex Barthel for Campus Review
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Knowing your NVQs
John Sparkes's understanding of NVQs is incomplete. All bodies responsible for designing NVQs must do so according to national criteria. These criteria demand that they embrace the following: * The...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Breakfast at Hotel Villa Kastania (Horsechestnut Hotel). Most of the streets in Charlottenburg (part of the British quarter of Berlin) are named after the trees which line them. We do not...