No ducking the issue
(Photograph) - No ducking the issue: Bletchley Park, site of the Government Code and Cypher School, where 50 years ago mathematicians made their crucial contribution to winning the war by cracking...
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Complex debate spoiled by hype
Michael Harrison defends his university's approach. The headline "Second best degree risk" (THES, April 28) and the Higher Education Quality Council chief executive's "timebomb for the Government"...
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Passenger train is on the wrong track
Roxanne Powell of the LSE is not "standing before the axed Advanced Passenger Train at the National Railway Museum" (THES April 21). It looks rather like part of an old steam train - a metaphor...
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Concern for the rules
The concern for rules can distort the real problems students have in coming to understand what it is to plagiarise, but what is more important, is what it means not to plagiarise ("Thou shalt honour...
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Scientists and social forces
Ron Iphofen castigates John Ashworth for his dismissive attitude towards both postmodernism and sociologists of science in his review of my book The Trouble With Science (THES, April 21). I fear he...
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Plagiarism case returns to court for review
The controversial Hong Kong University plagiarism case will go to court for the third time in three years - for a judicial review of the university's internal inquiry. Linda Koo and her research...
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Screen test for Hong Kong's democracy
A student is suing Hong Kong's urban council for $66 (about Pounds 4.50) after claiming he missed a film because of a mix-up over his ticket for the International Film Festival, organised by the...
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Law school fights bar
A tiny law school in Massachusetts is taking on the mighty American Bar Association by suing it for monopolistic practices. The unprecedented David and Goliath struggle is expected to last years and...
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V-cs gain right to sack staff
Australian vice chancellors have greater power to sack staff following an Industrial Relations Commission decision. The federal commission accepted proposals by the vice chancellors to simplify...
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Forward-looking NVQ candidates
Describing the award of an NVQ at higher levels as being "for no more than current competences" (J. J. Sparkes, THES, April 26) demonstrates a lack of understanding of what candidates actually have...
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Science seedcorn must be nurtured
Volume I of the Foresight saga is published and we shall soon see how the Government intends to move forward. A report to be published later this month by the Office of Science and Technology,...
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Students warned off cult charmers
Officials at Japan's top universities are warning students to be wary of the recruiting activities of the nation's growing number of religious cults. The warnings come at the start of a new academic...
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Yale boots out student who forged his grades
Another case of a student lying to gain admission to an Ivy League College - this time a student who fabricated his scores to get into Yale - is causing further soul-searching in colleges and...
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Germans focus on research
Germany's Fachhochschule teachers are demanding more involvement in research and development activities but critics warn this could damage an advantage they have over the universities - shorter study...
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Moldova suffering from massive brain drain
Moldova is the latest former Communist state to be affected by a serious loss of key scientists and academics tempted to go abroad by better salaries and research facilities. A senior Moldovan...