Puddle thinking
Rain is as much a part of Britain as the royal family. However, it seems the hourly probability of rain in the United Kingdom is actually quite low - about one in 12 in fact. Robert Matthews, a...
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Flash in the pan for Czechs
Baltimore Sun journalist H. L. Mencken once noted memorably that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". Too bad he never had a chance to see the present-day Czech...
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Albanians rejoin Serb fold
The Serbian government has signed a deal with the Albanians of Kosovo that promises to restore their access to the official university in the province. Albanophone education from kindergarten up to...
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Pockets of good practice
New universities receive less state funding for research than old ones. Is it time for a change, asks Clive Booth. It is time for new universities to take the offensive in asserting their role in the...
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Case of mistaken Euro-identity
As British holidaymakers return from the sunsoaked beaches of Spain and their rural retreats in Italy and France, it is harder than ever to see whether we will become more European. We may have...
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Call to limit use of genetic data
The United Kingdom should follow the example of countries such as Belgium, France, Austria and Norway and introduce a temporary moratorium on any requirement to disclose genetic information as the...
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High minded
We don't know what he's like at electrotechnics, but if the faculty of that subject at St Cyril and Methodius University at Tetovo in Macedonia offers options in enterprise it should immediately...
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Kinnock knockers blamed
The hostile press barrage directed at Neil Kinnock during his nine years as leader of the Labour party may have helped determine the final outcome of the 1992 general election, argued James Thomas, a...
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Pre-election Greek deal
The protracted dispute between the Greek government and the universities has ended with an undisclosed pay rise for lecturers and a pre-election promise from the ruling Pasok party that the problems...
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Useless subjects, few jobs
I wonder whether the attempt to raise popular awareness and understanding of engineering through the Year of Engineering Success (THES, September 13) will halt the sharp decline in the number of...
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Iraqi students left fee debts behind
Iraqi students still owe British universities thousands of pounds in fees from when they returned home during the Gulf war five years ago. Bradford University, which had 34 Iraqi students in 1990, is...
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Disabilities aid call
More must be done to improve education for people with learning difficulties or disabilities, according to a report published this week by a Further Education Funding Council advisory committee. It...
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Gene therapy company to go public
Oxford Biomedica, a university-based spin-off company specialising in gene therapy, is set to raise Pounds 5 million in share capital and to become a publicly quoted company on the Alternative...
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Land of mine
Alumnus to be proud of No. 67 is the man who has invented his own country, Umberto Bossi of Italy's Northern League party. If he were to follow the example of Oxford man Cecil Rhodes, the people of...
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Mail and females
In the classic humorous recitation of one-line descriptions of national newspapers, the Daily Mail is listed as "read by the wives of the people who run the country". That identity as a women's paper...