SA quotas to favour black medics
Medical schools at South African universities have been told that from next year their state funding will reflect the racial mix of their first-year student intake. Speaking on behalf of health...
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Chairs
Gresham College Gerald Wakefield, leading expert in international telecoms law and regulation and electronic technology law, professor of law; Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics,...
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Students hold officials hostage in fees row
NIGER students in Benin have taken their embassy officials and diplomats hostage as a means of pressurising the government to disburse scholarships and bursaries. Aggrieved students enrolled at the...
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A new forum for Europe
Academics are one of the groups in society that is most integrated into Europe. Student and faculty exchange programmes such as Socrates or Tempus, collaborative research programmes, training and...
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When will we see the Gazza chair?
The 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush is a convenient, if confected, peg on which to hang a review of Britain's progress in accommodating black and Asian immigrants. Immigrants have...
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The bumpy road to quality
Consultations on the Quality Assurance Agency's proposals for quality assurance in British higher education officially ended on May 22 amid signs that anger is rising in the academic community. This...
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Active role for a vigorous player
As vice-chancellors meet today, their leader, Martin Harris, sets out his aims and hopes for universities. Two convictions have underpinned the first of my two years as chair of the Committee of Vice...
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Swiss risk losing role
This weekend the Swiss vote on whether to tighten their already strict laws on genetic research. Jakob Nuesch argues that a 'yes' vote would imperil the country's research base. Some months ago a...
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Rough ride
I read the letter detailing what exactly "voluntary" redundancies at the University of East London were as I was sitting on a bus admiring a poster urging students to register for the bright, go-...
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Teaching at risk
DAVID Reynolds's reported views that "research hurts teaching" (THES, May 22) and that teaching is an "applied science" rather than art, indicate current dangers in policy. Reynolds, chair of the...
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Professional duties
TEACHERS from the '94 group of universities have clearly not appreciated the space for academic autonomy the proposed Institute of Learning and Teaching will give institutions and individuals (THES,...
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Professional duties
TEN million pounds for research into teaching and learning (THES, May 15) is of course welcome. However, over the past 50 years there has been a great deal of excellent research, which shows quite...
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Profit fans gene fever
WHATEVER the presentational flaws in the book by Mae-Wan Ho, for Mary Warnock to describe her as "the hysterical voice of doom" is grossly unfair (THES, May 29). Warnock ignores (at least in this...
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Too harsh a sentence
DIANE McGuinness writes that half the country's adults remain poor readers and that children's writing is way behind their reading (Perspective, THES, May 29). It would seem that some at least of...