Shephard raid that went wrong
I recently heard Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, on the BBC World Service attempting to justify a reduction of school funding and the resulting deterioration of the teacher/pupil...
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Build on expertise of bodies
It is to be hoped that the subtle and sensitive negotiations aiming to streamline the national approach to quality assurance are concluded quickly, and in such a way as to minimise the expenditure of...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
May Day saw the NUS release details of its latest student hardship survey. The survey found that one in three students actually miss meals because of hardship; one in four consider dropping out...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
I was dismayed to read your front-page story "Follow my Labour" (THES, May 5). Not only are issues in the article confused, I am inclined to believe that the text was conveniently put together to fit...
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Pet theories in the lab
To begin to "prove" his radical ideas, one wonders if Rupert Sheldrake ("Dogmas and pet theories", THES, May 5) made a bid for an experiment in the recent series of experiments performed in the "...
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Neglected and patronised
The celebration of adult learners' week next week, and VE Day this week, are well-timed. The generation that fought the Second World War and then voted in a Labour government and a welfare state are...
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The four beneficiaries who must pay
Funding is at the heart of the debate on the future of higher education. Lecturer's leader David Triesman, is right to say that new sources of funding have to be found to enable the system to expand...
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Endangered genes go to the bank
Mounting anger and frustration at the lack of progress in pay talks has brought staff at Victoria University of Wellington to the brink of what could be New Zealand's first academic strike. The...
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Loophole in Dutch masters
Tensions in Dutch higher education are growing with the blurring of distinctions between universities and colleges for higher vocational training, or Hogeschulen, following each's steady expansion...
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Kuwait's ambassadors from student world
The Iraqi invasion of 1990 and the subsequent Nintendo war may be fading fast from the West's public consciousness, but Kuwait's recovery process will place a severe burden on the country for years...
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Vietnam vets claim anti-war backlash
Twenty years after the war ended, Vietnam veterans are complaining that they have been denied jobs in universities in the United States because those in charge of higher education never served in the...
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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China link poses v-c job problem
A selection committee at Hong Kong's oldest university has dropped its plan to recommend a University of Delaware professor as its next vice chancellor in the sensitive run-up to Chinese rule. The...
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How to get the dressing right
If your are seriously wounded in an accident, your chances of a quick recovery may depend on which brand of dressing your surgeon happens to find in the cupboard. Until now, there has been little...
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Aerosols raise hopes of quick medicinal fixes
Diabetics dependent on insulin and patients who receive post-operative pain killers by injection will be the first beneficiaries of pharmaceutical research at Cardiff University. Pharmacist Steve...