TUC misled about Darwin's dad
Did David Triesman really tell the TUC conference that Darwin's father scraped a living as a poor country GP? If so he really should take more care to check his facts. Far from being a poor GP, Dr...
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Quality row hides cuts aim
When the diploma in art and design was taken over by the Council for National Academic Awards there was a regulation that art colleges/polytechnic faculties of art and design could admit up to 6 per...
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Double-take
Bahram Bekhradnia's speaks of the remarkable achievement of doubling the age-participation rate in higher education "funded entirely at public expense" (THES, September 15). Unfortunately it was not...
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Ethics of vivisection moving into focus
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...
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Language law gets stay of execution
Romania's ethnic minorities have won a one-year concession against the new education law which threatened to remove their right to take university entrance examinations in their own languages. In the...
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Modern English breaks stranglehold of Soviets
British cultural studies, a new trend in the teaching of English in Russian universities, is breathing life back into a language strangled under Soviet isolationism. In the years since the collapse...
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Referendum bites the dust
Seven French government ministers attended the launch of a commission on education which appears set to bury President Chirac's pre-election promise of a referendum on education. In a lengthy...
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Twin truths about IQ theory
Your report by Olga Wojtas (THES, September 15) on scientific fraud is illustrated with a photograph of the late Sir Cyril Burt, who is said to have "fabricated much of his data on twins". It is true...
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When eyes see water
John Barrow ("Beauty is in the eye of the hunter", THES, September 15) suggests the arid, bare savannah grasslands determine our landscape preferences. What of our love of water? The seaside, the...
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Fun factor rules in Science Week
Your editorial ("The future of the BA", THES, September 15) rightly identifies the potential for change among the institutions involved in promoting public understanding of science, including the...
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Destroyers of Yugoslavia
In a second attempt to justify the Serb-sponsored genocide against the people of Bosnia, Will Podmore (THES, September 8) has misquoted me. In order to make his claim that the aggression in the...
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Hard battle for TECs
Training and Enterprise Councils have trumpeted the Government's latest performance figures as evidence of "excellent performance and value for money". Such self-congratulation is understandable....
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Lib-Dems boldly go
The party conference season kicked off this week with the Liberal Democrats meeting in Glasgow. For once higher education was put up for serious consultation - both the issue of standards, on which...
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V-cs must grab political advantage
The years following the 1988 Education Reform Act have been among the most eventful in the recent history of the universities. The changes have been dramatic. Where have they left the Committee of...
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Postgraduate ramparts fall to female power
Statistics released by Israel's ministry of education have confirmed the continuation of a recent trend that has seen females comprising an ever-increasing percentage of the university population....