The third great balloon debate
For the past two weeks we have loaded up our metaphorical hot air balloon, first with young scientists and then with young social scientists. Each time the balloon was overloaded and plunging to...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Ian Howard, artist and course director in drawing at the school of fine art, Duncan of Jordanstone College, has been appointed professor of fine art. KINGSTON UNIVERSITY. The...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. John Palmer, chairman of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and vice-president of the...
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Honorary degrees
GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY. DLitt: Richard Wilson, actor and director. DSc: Kenneth Calman, chief medical officer. DTech: Allan MacDonald, director of regional marketing, British Aerospace. LLD:...
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Students scorn levy sidetrack
Student leaders have demanded that vice chancellors continue to pressure the Government over higher education funding instead of debating one-off undergraduate levies. NUS president Jim Murphy, and...
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University funding
The Association of University Teachers has again called for a Royal Commission to lead a national investigation in to the "nightmare problem" of university funding, writes Alison Utley. The AUT said...
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Key issue review due 'shortly'
The Government is poised to produce plans for tackling key higher education funding and policy issues, but the plans are expected to be broadbrush rather than detailed. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...
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Loans idea 'irritates' Forth
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has refused to take up the Conservative Political Centre thinktank's radical proposals on funding. The CPC's report, The Future of Britain's Universities,...
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Just a phrase they're going through
Jon Turney meets Evelyn Fox Keller, the physicist turned philosopher who is putting the words scientists use under the critical microscope. At intervals over the past few decades, a cultural vacancy...
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A publishing mouse
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...
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Fee steering into a one-way street
Universities hit the national television news last week - a rare occasion. The picture showed students walking up and down pathways outside buildings with the newscaster's voice-over. It all...
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The party's gold card
For one reason or another higher education seems to be a source of contention in most - if not all - developed lands. The Russia of the 1990s is no exception, indeed her universities and institutes...
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Don's diary
TUESDAY. On the internal flight from Toronto to Vancouver, an airline stewardess anxiously asks me if I have a spare "loonie". Coming from a mainstream psychiatric setting in a university hospital, I...
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The Bible ignores Palestine
One of the serious imbalances in the survey of Keith Whitelam's views on the ancient history of Israel is the preponderance of religious and politically opposing views (Palestinian vs Israel;...
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The Bible ignores Palestine
The headline "The Bible bashers" (THES, January 19) sensationalises and trivialises an important academic debate within biblical studies. Furthermore, the claim that I explained to Simon Targett that...