Political potatoes too hot to handle
Student finances and support systems are at the centre of an intense debate again. It has echoes of the 1960s - the preoccupations then were expansion of higher education versus a threat to quality,...
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Speaking French is now 'non issue'
A narrow non-vote against Quebec separatism means that plans for French-language fluency to become a university entrance requirement are likely to be further postponed. This week's referendum, where...
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Unions rally behind whistleblowing policy
University and college lecturers' unions have called for sweeping changes in the governance of institutions in evidence presented to the Nolan Committee this week. All universities should be governed...
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Prisoners of gender
Women hold only 5 per cent of professorships in the UK. Helena Kennedy examines the different forms of male prejudice which have caused this marginalisation. In the 1860s Sophia Jex-Blake, determined...
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Down and out in Kentish obscurity
The crumbling house where Darwin lived and wrote On the Origin of Species could be rescued from decay by a Pounds 2.4 million grant from the National Lottery, Aisling Irwin reports Charles Darwin may...
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The suits tailor a parochial debate
Late last month, 250 of higher education's Great and the Good met in the august surroundings of the Royal Society to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Society for Research into Higher Education....
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Out of Soares's shadow
One commentator described the Portuguese Socialist Party's victory in last month's parliamentary election as a "new April 25", a reference to the country's 1974 revolution which sprang from an...
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New Left marches on albeit minus masters
Fred Inglis (THES, October 20) claims that, despite individual accomplishments, the latter-day New Left nevertheless lacks the commanding intellectual and moral stature of Raymond Williams and Edward...
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Prescription for progress
One would expect the professions to be able to justify their services by showing that clients benefit from them. In fact, all professions resist gathering the necessary evidence. Progress towards...
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Portsmouth far from shipshape
As the person who represented Mrs Tall in her claim for constructive dismissal against the University of Portsmouth, I would like to take issue with Mike Bateman and the "facts" he disclosed in his...
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Assessors must blow their cover
As HEFCE's first assessment is published Geoffrey Alderman (below) argues that stage two is shrouded in secrecy and Ian Howarth (right) suggests an alternative. Whatever else may be said about the...
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Students topple director
(Photograph) - The dismissal of Romania's director general of higher education marked an important victory for students in the second week of a general strike over the introduction of university fees...
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Crumbling buildings need Pounds 500m
France's university presidents have warned the government that its decision to hold consultations on the future of higher education must not lead to the shelving of urgent problems. Two issues which...
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Knowing Fliess from Fleischl
Stuart Sutherland's review of my Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis, (THES, October 20) confuses Ernst Fleischl with Wilhem Fliess, dismisses by magisterial assertion a complex...