Hands on market controls
For New Zealand universities, like those elsewhere, life is getting difficult. The value of our contribution to society is no longer taken as read. We are more and more required to defend and justify...
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A tip from Florida on college taxes
One of Mrs Thatcher's famous remarks was that society did not exist. But if she could have invented a society it would no doubt have been Miami - it has no income tax, grand opulence and more film...
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Right said Sir Fred
Sir Fred Hoyle, treated like a heretic for saying that life on earth came from space, tells Lucy Hodges why he is nevertheless suspicious of Nasa's claims to have found traces of life in a Martian...
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The evolution revolution
Marxism's decline has been followed by a link up between evolutionary biology and social science which should produce startling insights into human behaviour, argue John Ashworth and Helena Cronin....
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What a waste
Obliterating the binary line was a mistake, argues Mary Warnock. It ruined the vocational role of the former polytechnics and fatally debased the value of a university degree. The binary line which...
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We were always ethical folk
Robert Eaglestone examines the resurgence of a topic long neglected by many in the world of theory. Ethics" argued Steven Connor in the TLS, "seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most charged...
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University on verge of tax-free pay deal
A CONTROVERSIAL "tax-free pay" scheme looks set to be introduced at the University of the West of England to fend off the effects of an enrolment shortfall. Rob Cuthbert, assistant vice chancellor,...
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Full-time teacher cuts hit standards
SCRIMPING on full-time staff to save cash could lower college standards, according to the Further Education Funding Council's annual inspection report. In his third and final report before retiring...
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Long walk from apartheid
THE SOUTH AFRICAN government, under pressure to move quickly to end the inequalities in higher education of the apartheid era, is to explore ways to "Africanise" its now heavily-Eurocentric...
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Losing their heads
Nearly a quarter of college principals have retired in the past three years, a survey by the Further Education Funding Council reveals. Of the 155 colleges which have changed their principal since...
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Brand takes a back seat
Edinburgh University's psychology department was guilty of an error of judgement in appointing self-styled "scientific racist" Chris Brand as convener of an ethics committee, the university's dean of...
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Bosses to call the shots
Ministers have sent radical proposals to Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into higher education which would transform universities into advanced training academies. They want a dramatic increase in the...
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Field of knowledge
(Photograph) - New universities in sites from London Docklands to the Highlands of Scotland will mean a new look for British higher education in the new millennium (page 6, opinion, page 11)....
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Guildhall vote to strike
Academic staff at London Guildhall University have voted to strike in protest against compulsory redundancies and a proposed pay freeze. A ballot, concluded this week, found 55 per cent in favour of...
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Politics lacks punters
Political science is falling victim to its practitioners' reluctance to compete for grants, according to a leading official of the Economic and Social Research Council. The Political Science...