Siena's Palio horses 'doped'
The former rector of the University of Siena, and a former mayor of the Tuscan city, has accused some of the trainers of the horses that compete in the traditional "Palio" race in Siena's Piazza del...
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Stelvio, the university for ski instructors
With pardonable hyperbole, the "happy few" who work on the Stelvio glacier in the Alps between May and November proudly call themselves "The World's University of Skiing", an elite consortium of ski...
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Think your way out
Higher education feels threatened on many fronts but by far the greatest danger is complacency, argues Kate Jenkins. Complaints of government interference must not sidetrack institutions from their...
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The need for an academic ombudsman
The settling of academic disputes by universities alone has always been a difficult process. John Griffith argues the case for an independent watchdog Academic institutions are notorious for their...
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Forging better research and policy links
Millions of pounds are spent on university research into raising standards in schools. So why isn't it happening? Jim Hillage suggests a way forward "Do you really think research can influence...
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Watching Australia's fee fracas
It was going to be a proud day for Australian universities. Our very own student funding system, the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, was supposed to herald a new age in British higher education...
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Regulating the diet of digital burgers
The average Briton spends more time watching TV than doing anything else other than sleeping - 25 and a half hours per week to be precise. Admittedly, my average Brit is a mean not a median; but, if...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales DD: Hans Kung, professor emeritus of ecumenical theology at the University of Tubingen, president of the Foundation Global Ethic in Germany (1995) and Switzerland (1997); David...
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'Science must be applied'
The government should overhaul its schemes to encourage university researchers to collaborate with industry, according to the new science minister, Lord Sainsbury. The initiatives should be appraised...
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All-male bias hampers research funding study
A study to evaluate the funding of interdisciplinary research is being hampered by a lack of balance in responses from academics, writes Alison Goddard. The study intends to ensure the fair...
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US visa block on foreign workers
A POLITICAL impasse over the availability of visas has shut the door on foreign academics who had hoped to enter the United States in time to teach or do research in the academic year now beginning....
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Techno future not easy to predict, says report
Forecasting how technology and people will mix in 2020 will need more than the "gee-whiz optimism of the technophiles", concludes a Foresight report from the Economic and Social Research Council out...
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Pagan but not godless
I was appalled by the closing paragraph of Shabbir Akhtar's review (THES, August 21), in which he identifies secularism with paganism and denounces the latter as ruthless, power-seeking and "godless...
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Insult to Serbs
Vera Rich (THES, August 21) "informs" us that "Kosovo was cut off from Albania in the Communist era ..." This is grossly incorrect and insulting both to Serbs today and their forefathers who fought...
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On record
Christopher Phipps refers to the British Library and other major libraries collaborating to ensure a continued national public archive (THES, August 21). Anyone from the London Library should be...