A level guide to ability
Two of the four letters responding to my article (Personal View, THES, November 17) on the national scandal of disparate A-level grades in different subjects, referred with great confidence to "...
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A level guide to ability
I waited with increasing frustration for Simon Szreter to entertain the notion that those studying for A levels in the hard sciences and in languages might be more likely to achieve high grades...
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A level guide to ability
Simon Szreter's view on A level grades is an astonishing misuse of statistics. He argues that, because a higher proportion of A-level candidates gain A and B grades in some subjects than in others,...
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Confucius and chips
They will be dancing in the streets of the Chinese capital Beijing tonight, as they do every night. There will be long, sinuous serpentine dragon dances in the quiet squares, and, in the underpasses...
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Don's Diary
Day one. Picnic breakfast in Moscow's Belgrad Hotel, en route to Crimea '95 conference on libraries in a transient world, with generous support from British Council. Join ten other delegates from the...
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Time to push the reactive button
As we contemplate yet another deeply disappointing public expenditure settlement, university and college staff throughout the United Kingdom must be wondering just what they have to do to recreate...
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A good man in Africa
Palaeontologist turned politician Richard Leakey makes no bones about corruption in his beloved Kenya. Aisling Irwin reports. I have been accused by the president of Kenya of being a racist and of...
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The fellow who traded archives for red boxes
John Redwood tells Martyn Kelly why he decided not to become a historian. In 1976 a young historian wrote about the effect of the age of Enlightenment on the political and religious establishment of...
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Dissident tells of academic repression
A former Nigerian foreign minister and academic this week accused the military regime of General Sani Abacha of punishing the country's universities to prevent them becoming the focus of dissent....
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Governors exclude staff and students
Funding chiefs are to investigate the extent of the "democratic deficit" in the governing bodies following a survey finding that some institutions have excluded staff and students from their...
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Funding merger warning
Rumours of the possible merger of the higher and further education funding councils have set alarm bells ringing in both the college and university sectors. Ruth Gee, chief executive of the...
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Three forms
(Photograph) - Three forms: Plymouth University student Alison Crews admires a bronze by Dame Barbara Hepworth, unveiled earlier this month to mark the opening of the university's latest building...
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All the president's men out in force
Northern Ireland's two universities were preparing to heave a monumental sigh of relief today as President Bill Clinton was due to leave the province after his historic visit. The president and his...
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EC eyes mobility
The European Commission has urged member states' higher education institutions to boost student mobility independently of exch-ange schemes backed by Brussels. In a paper on key challenges facing...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication Conscious...