Summer cum laude in Saratoga Springs
Things begin to heat up at Skidmore College, a liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, up-state New York, when the students leave for the summer. Children as young as six arrive for basketball and...
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Congress watch on campus crime
The case of an Ohio student allowed to continue college after admitting a drunken sexual assault on a woman classmate has helped renew the controversy over the handling of campus crime. In a two-page...
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Clubbers send happy smoke signals
Canadian university clubs have a place for everyone from rifle enthusiasts to until last year, left-handers. If there is a favourite activity or cause, chances are a group of students will start a...
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Bible belt whipped into fury over 'sex'
Bible Belt morality and Internet sex do not mix - as the University of Oklahoma is discovering. The campus is the latest battleground in a national debate over electronic censorship. This spring the...
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PM chooses an 'unknown' as minister
New Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar's choice of a relatively unknown politician as education minister has left many academics wondering what she will have in store for universities. Esperanza...
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Bar-Ilan found not guilty
An inquiry into Israel's Bar-Ilan University, established after the assassination of Yitshak Rabin by one of its students, has largely cleared the university of contributing to the political...
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Germany sows its R&D seedcorn in foreign fields
German industry is turning its back on its own country and investing in research and development abroad, according to a federal government report on the state of German science. The report says...
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Gender on the urban agenda
Gender issues have been ignored by teachers of urban planning, according to coordinators of a conference in Istanbul. Turkey's first international symposium on gender dealt with the question of...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
It has been a difficult two weeks for Brunel University. Not only has The THES given David Marsland more free publicity for his latest book on the faults of the welfare system (THES, May 17), but a...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's continuing attempt to portray the welfare state as an unmitigated disaster is, as usual, wide of the mark. Although it has a number of shortcomings, the post-1945 welfare state has...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's article on the British welfare state deserves to be widely read. It is one of the most vivid caricatures of the bankrupt (and tired) conservative thinking that I have encountered in...
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Victims of a bureaucracy bash
Richard Davies says much that is true in his swingeing critique of Italian universities (THES, April 26). Indeed, they are badly in need of reform. But he omits to say much else that is also true,...
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Knowledge goes out to market
Developments in information and communications technology mean that knowledge has become divorced from organisations and places. In future, people will use knowledge where it is, not where it can be...
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Vulnerable but certainly not alone
I do not recognise myself or my writing in the comments (THES ,May 17) that Sarah Coakley's critics have been "vociferous"; that "post-Christian feminists such as Daphne Hampson I vehemently reject...
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The machine in the ghost
Bertrand Russell