Mean test hits poor applicants
Increasing numbers of poorer young Australians are likely to be deterred from going on to university because of increased fees and a federal government decision to tighten eligibility requirements...
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Job victory for disabled woman
A disabled woman has won her fight to become a temporary lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. A staff selection board which had cast doubt on her ability to cope with teaching has now...
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One million weapons on US campuses
In a society prone to violent crime, United States colleges are still islands of sanity, a recent study shows. College students report carrying weapons at a much lower rate than in schools and across...
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Natural canopy on the top of the globe
THE Lapland town of Rovaniemi is famed for its Father Christmas industry which flies thousands of tourists every year over the Arctic circle, and into the recently constructed timber village where...
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Jail break for the bent on bizniz
RUSSIAN prisons are being swamped with young offenders. Tempted into crime by a combination of poverty and a police force which cannot cope, many of them are convicted while their contemporaries are...
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Budget leaves no choice but charges
Despite fierce warnings, more money was found this week for education - but not a brass farthing for higher education. The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, has relented on his stipulation that all spending...
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Medical research needs oxygen
LABOUR Britain is going to be a tough place for those who provide public services. In areas as diverse as utilities, universities and hospitals, the message to managers and practitioners is that they...
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Stay-at-home Brits lose us Euro edge
European student mobility is not at the top of Britain's higher education agenda. It is doubtful if, for most policy-makers, it merits a place on the agenda at all. But the significant decline in...
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Credit funding is here, but so are its drawbacks
Roger Brown believes the arguments for changing funding are strong, but some critical issues must be resolved before they are accepted Funding by credit is now seriously on the policy agenda. The...
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Old problems in new bodies
Southampton Institute's troubles are symptomatic of a wider accountability failure. Alan Whitehead suggests answers the Nolan report did not Recent events at Southampton Institute seem to have a...
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Barristers should stay in court
HELENA KENNEDY's claim that "for centuries (the belief in the trickle-down effect of education in which resources are concentrated on an elite group) has blighted not just the British economy, but...
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Fair pay and fairy stories
YOUR readers must be fascinated with the story of Higher Education Role Analysis (THES, June ). It has everything: 1970s trade union bluster from Alan Carr of the Association of University Teachers....
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Willing to hear the lure of the wild
A few days ago, fund-raising for our Lincoln campus development, we organised several showings at the local cinema of The Wild and the Willing. Made in 1962, it centres on a (fictional) university in...
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False note about music
IT IS misleading to state that the new department of world music at Thames Valley is the first of its kind in a British university (THES, June ). The centre of music studies, School of Oriental and...
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Fermat's vast legacy
JOHN OCKENDON and Rebecca Gower, reviewing the books by Anir Aczel and Simon Singh on Fermat's Last Theorem (THES, June ), have missed the point about Andrew Wiles's outstanding achievement. Although...