Graz boycott
There seems to be a certain sanctimony in the debate over whether academics should attend the Graz conference, but it is an aside in George McKay's article that I find personally offensive. He writes...
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Crime in Pakistan
The caption to the photograph with "Putting the just into justice" (THES, March 24) is wrong. It asks: "Is this justice? A mother identifies the sandals of her missing child, murdered by Indian...
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Trojan horse needed
I was disappointed to read that women in the Association of University Teachers have called for a union ballot to consider rejecting the Institute for Learning and Teaching, on the grounds that it...
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To kickbox or tickbox
I agree wholeheartedly with Alison Wolf on competence-based assessment ("Trying to box clever", THES, March 31). She has identified what we in further education have always said: "It is too top-down...
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Trade in your skills
The online age of learning is here.Universities that lack e-courses will go bust, warns Dale Spender. There can be no question about the existence of e-universities; they are as much a reality of the...
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Why the public should listen to scientists
The Royal Society - unaccountable elitism or democratic expertise? Harry Kroto defends the RS. The article by Tom Wakeford (Soapbox, THES, March 24) bound up some important questions. It talked about...
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Madrid
The University of Cantabria is paying students up to Pounds 300 a year to check lectures as part of a quality assurance strategy. Volunteers from 31 departments report on who gives the lecture, its...
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La Plata
All 150 applicants for tourism courses at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata are threatening to sit in on lectures because of the university's failure to publish the mathematics entry examination...
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Boost for Midlands
The University of Wolverhampton has launched an initiative to help boost Midlands' industry. The move comes as the region attempts to gauge the economic damage caused by BMW's proposed sale of the...
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Funding revamp shifts focus of science
Sweden is restructuring its research network to focus on innovation. Michael de Laine reports on the changes and on the country's key role in arctic studies. A bill to revamp Swedish research funding...
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Hot air and cold bodies illuminated by aurorae
Sweden is restructuring its research network to focus on innovation. Michael de Laine reports on the changes and on the country's key role in arctic studies. In the Swedish arctic, halfway between...
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Key to the past is contested
A remarkable medieval correspondence long held to reveal how English society disintegrated on the eve of the War of the Roses may have been misinterpreted by historians. The Paston Letters, one of...
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Runt of the universe found
It is the runt of our galaxy's stellar litter. The smallest brown dwarf, a "failed" star that barely glimmers, has been detected by astronomers. Weighing in at just less than ten times the mass of...
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Science PhD - who needs it?
Three reports highlight the low morale of science research students. Natasha Loder spoke to broke postgrads struggling to stay motivated. Annie Dugdale is a biology research student from the...
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'Class-ridden' sector slated
Admissions tutors who consider themselves guardians of the quality of higher education are blocking access to university for people from under-represented groups, a conference will hear next week....