Fulbright killers get 18 years
Three black South Africans who stabbed, stoned and bludgeoned American exchange student Amy Biehl to death in a Cape Town shanty town last year have each been sentenced to 18 years in jail for what...
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East End job plan launched
Unemployed graduates in London's East End will soon be able to enrol on an innovative job-seeking scheme run by the local Training and Enterprise Council. Gradplan is being offered by London East TEC...
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External examiners given OK
The external examiner system should continue, according to a survey by the Open University's Validation Services of the 50 institutions it accredits. The survey, Using External Examiners, found that...
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Death in the community
Michael Burleigh on the reaction of German health professionals and relatives to the murder of their mentally ill by the Nazis. My work on Nazi Germany began with a book on the supine involvement of...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY afternoon: Receive my first set of senior papers to grade. Randomly choose one to read. The title, "Orlando ain't no chick" reminds me that this is definitely, as they would say in these parts...
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A little help to learn Russian in Russia
I agree with Pieta Monks' s analysis (THES, October 21) that a climate of fear and rising costs in Russia, coupled with grant-starved students in Britain, has sadly led to a decline in numbers of...
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Count me out
You listed me as a candidate for the post of chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Coouncil for England (THES, October 21). I clearly told the headhunter who appproached me that I did not...
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Idiomatic error
Pamela King and Angela Barrs (THES, October 14) represent me as a stone-throwing, glass-house dweller because I confused an idiomatic error with a grammatical one in my article (THES, September 30)....
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Lessons from a past perdu
From Kam Patel's interview with John Hopfield (THES, October 21) we learn that his 1982 paper on associative memory "led to an 'explosion' of research in neural computing". Hopfield himself...
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Savoir faire
(Photograph) - Savoir faire: Edith Cresson, the former French socialist prime minister, is the new European commissioner for education, training and research. Mrs Cresson takes over responsibility...
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Blow away oligarchies
John Rear's defence of managerial sensitivity to academic issues is encouraging. As he says, "good management does not exclude collegiality"; it may encourage it, as responsibility for courses in...
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Central European project welcomes Croatia
A bid by Croatia to become a passive member in joint Central European programmes for higher education and research has been given whole-hearted support by the Danube Rectors' Conference. The...
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University of Sierra Leone fails to re-open
The University of Sierra Leone failed to re-open for the new academic year. The government of Captain Valentine Strasser ordered it to remain closed so that much-needed renovations could be carried...