Pole apart
The Royal Geographic Society may have merged with the Institute of British Geographers, but the new joint body clearly has no intention of submerging its tradition of travel to the far-flung quarters...
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Hygiene dean joins World Bank
Richard Feachem, dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is moving in April to a newly created senior post with the World Bank, over-seeing its health sector work. Professor...
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Wagner'swish for 'inner life'
Leeds Metropolitan University vice chancellor Leslie Wagner says elitism is the major cause of the "tensions and dysfunctions" afflicting higher education. Delivering his inaugural lecture yesterday...
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Michael proves he can do
Last summer Michael Little was a conventional sixth-former, sitting his A levels. This winter, he is an unconventional undergraduate, reading for an external London University management degree while...
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Putting the bite on Africa
Karen Mac Gregor meets the dentist who is chair of South Africa's first National Education Commission Jairam Reddy trod the political tightrope that has become the lot of vice chancellors at...
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Graduate grouses
Is the latest finding from the Association of Graduate Recruiters -- which shows that while the pool of graduates has grown, a fifth of leading employers report a shortfall in graduate recruitment...
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Degrees of simplicity
From the beginning of January Australia's three education sectors -- higher education, technical and further education, and schools -- have been connected through a new unified qualifications system...
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Asians accused of fees' abuse
A special federal government committee is expected to investigate claims that wealthy Asian students are abusing Australia's support and fee systems and costing the Australian taxpayer millions of...
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Chartering a smoother course
I read with interest Jim Parlour ("Charters which change little", Opinion, THES December 30). While I would agree that the Department for Education and the National Union of Students charters...
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Poll to tax the brain
You report the results of a MORI poll and a readership poll (THES, January 6) that include the statement "students from well-off families should contribute to tuition costs". The majority of a sample...
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All right, said Fred
Just because he declared that God is dead and was the initiator of the post-modern period does not justify The THES ("Finding one's own Nietzche" Letters, January 6) adopting the psuedo-metaphysical...
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Constructed criticism
In trying to marginalise the sociology of scientific knowledge into its own little ghetto, Steven Weinberg ("A zing of truth", THES, January 6) asserts what he takes to be a forceful analogy -- that...
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Carrying on regardless of students
Simeon Underwood highlights inconsistency in assessments When all the world and the quality assessment exercise were new, one of the few enjoyable features for us administrators was the response of...
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Sharing ideas in accounting
Two recent developments might help to reassure Mr Stittle (THES, December 30) and others who feel concerned about the state of accounting education. The first is the establishing of a Special...