Work erodes study time
One in three students is missing lectures and one in five is failing to submit study assignments because they have to work to make ends meet, a new survey has revealed. The National Union of Students...
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Charity found guilty of racial discrimination
University Settlement, a charity that helps the disadvantaged, has pledged to "assess and upgrade" its staffing rules after being found guilty of racial discrimination. The settlement is run by...
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King Alfred's issue carries on burning
Michael Lapidge's comments on my book on King Alfred the Great (THES, March 8) raise worries which go far beyond the academic in-fighting that clutters up his text. Lapidge repeats - no less than six...
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Nigerian v-cs told to cross off Malta meeting
The Nigerian government has barred the country's vice chancellors from this week's Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Malta in anticipation of criticism of the execution of Ogoni...
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Failure of funding sums
I read with interest that Mr Forth insisted that there is no casual relationship between funding and quality (THES, March 15). Universities claim that quality is damaged as funding is eroded. The...
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Funding postgraduates
A crucial issue has been overlooked amid the discussions provoked by the Dearing review. I refer to the provision and funding of postgraduate studies, particularly at masters level, which requires...
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Gene genie summed up
In your leader (THES, March 15) relating to the extent to which our behaviour may be genetically controlled, you report that "there is no slick term for summing up these (genetic or environmental)...
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HEFCE launches 12 private initiatives
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has unveiled 12 "pathfinder" projects for private finance, valued at Pounds 119 million. The projects, ranging from the relocation of a business...
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Shards of genius
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli have studied a savant who speaks 20 languages but struggles to put on a shirt. Readers of this newspaper probably consider...
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Englishman heads Monash
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
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Race case switches admission quota rule
Conservatives hope an Appeals Court ruling against using race as a basis of admissions to the University of Texas has sounded the death knell for affirmative action programmes across the United...
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Tashkent masterminds
Nearly three years ago a group of European Union specialists came to Uzbekistan in former Soviet Central Asia to launch a programme to train teachers of business management. The aim was to set in...
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Turks take to streets over tuition
Turkey is in the grip of growing student unrest over the imposition of higher tuition fees by the national university administration, YOK. The disturbances are the worst the country has experienced...
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Micawber factor
Your report of the findings of the Public Accounts Committee on the operations of the Student Loans Company (THES, March 22) rightly records the amount of the total outstanding loan portfolio which...
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A nation minded to murder?
Hitler's Willing Executioners