Rectors enter French fray
University presidents stepped into the student-led fray over reforms in French higher education with their own list of demands and a flat rejection of at least one proposal by education minister...
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German rectors push fees charge
German university rectors have pledged to continue developing their plans for student fees, despite triggering almost universal opposition from politicians and students. Hans-Uwe Erichsen, president...
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Old papal haunts get a facelift
The University of Viterbo, one of Italy's youngest state universities, is taking over and restoring some of the most interesting medieval and renaissance buildings in the old Papal stronghold of...
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Taming of the screw
Is this the last straw? Again and again since 1981 the funding screw has been tightened on universities. In the past five years alone the amount of money for each student has gone down by 25 per cent...
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Women who must be heard
The delegates, almost all female, at last week's British Association meeting on careers for women in science, technology and engineering were both impressive and depressing. Impressive because of the...
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French trapped by their centralism
The remarkable regularity with which France's universities erupt suggests student protest movements bear a striking similarity. But this time, it is different. Since 1986, student unrest has sunk one...
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Not so hot a melting pot
I enjoyed David Cannadine's article on new perspectives in British history teaching (THES, November 24) but I was surprised to see him repeat the myth that this country is a "multi-racial society"....
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GNVQs trip up at the red tape
The potential imposition of a national curriculum for higher education (THES, November 17) through GNVQs at level 4 is being promoted with a worrying lack of debate. On a technical basis alone, GNVQs...
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GNVQs trip up at the red tape
My article on a national curriculum was missing the final sentence from the submitted manuscript. That sentence read: "We do, however, need urgently to establish a national forum drawing in all...
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Silence on funding rules does not mean assent
You report Graeme Davies, until lately chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, as saying that he interprets "the relative silence of the academic community over the...
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Silence on funding rules does not mean assent
Graeme Davies is disingenuous in interpreting "the relative silence of the academic community over the current funding model as assent". Those of us who have suffered most from a system designed to...
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Selling science short
Scientific research is in danger because neo-liberals have espoused central planning. In a recent article, Simon Jenkins (THES, October 10) highlighted one of the most puzzling aspects of British...
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Professors on move
So, Mr Simmonds (Letters, THES, November 24) is concerned that Bishop Burton College, a further education college, is to have a chair endowed by commercial sponsorship. He worries that this practice...
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Professors on move
I was surprised at the letter headed "Amazing dancing profs". Surely the writer and subeditor know that Christopher Bannerman has the chair in dance at Middlesex University, and is internationally...
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Driven to crime
Lecturer Jim Hawes is on the road to fame and fortune with his first novel, A White Merc with Fins. Huw Richards reports. Hawes the novelist Brady wanted a real gun, he insisted on a real gun, the...