Extra tests used to help access drive
Extra tests and supplementary application forms are being used by universities to boost the number of students they take from lower socioeconomic groups, writes Alison Goddard. The universities of...
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Model of true autonomy free from state bondage
Buckingham shows how the state could support a UK Ivy League, argues Terence Kealey Did we nationalise the universities the wrong way? Until the first world war, British universities were independent...
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Don's diary: Conversations to counter media corruption
Monday Miraflores, Lima. Peru is struggling with the legacy of ex-president Alberto Fujimori's authoritarian regime. Manipulation and corruption of the media were rampant. The country has unregulated...
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What Dr Dexter did next
As Mike Dexter prepares to leave his post in London as director of the Wellcome Trust next week, all eyes are on what he will do next. Dr Dexter, 57, who turned down a two-year extension to his...
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Twins with competitive stroke
Twin sisters Kathryn and Robyn Farmer will be competing on different sides in this year's women's university boat race. Kathryn has been selected for the Cambridge team and Robyn for the Oxford squad...
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Please, sir, can I have more?
Sir Gareth Roberts was called before the House of Lords select committee on science last week. Asked by a member of the committee how he felt his report, SET for Success: the Supply of People with...
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Tackling the tooth terror
Student dentists at the University of Amsterdam are learning how to deal with terrified patients. Dentist and psychologist Arie De Jongh estimates that more than 800,000 people in The Netherlands are...
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Harry Kroto
I love quotations. Perhaps my all-time favourite is by the American columnist and short-story writer Don Marquis: "If you make people think they are thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make...
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Give us a tax break
The UK government is promoting a culture of giving but more is needed, argues C. Duncan Rice On returning from the US in 1996 to become principal of the University of Aberdeen, I knew that the wealth...
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Study is not a one-way street
Students may view themselves as consumers of education, but they too have contractual obligations, writes Gary Attle The recent award of damages to a group of students against their college for...
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Are you ready for a flexible friend?
Jack-of-all-trades Stuart Murray leaves further education for an alien higher world and finds acres of space and a fair few closed doors... So this is what it's like to work in higher education. I...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Mary Davies Age : 48 Job: Study/dyslexia support tutor at Swansea Institute of Higher Education. Salary : £22,948...
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Lambert: I'm no stooge
The man commissioned by the Treasury to look at the links between higher education and business has denied claims that his report will be used to force universities to reform their governance....
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Share fall threatens medical research
Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of the Wellcome Trust's endowment fund in the past two years, forcing it to review future funding plans for medical and biomedical research. The trust...
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Musicians trumpet tutor benefits
Some of the world's best musical performers gain as much from teaching in Britain's conservatoires as their students do from the lessons, research has found, writes Tony Tysome. New and improved...