For a sporting chance
Richard Cox says Durham University operates an "affirmative recruitment policy for outstanding athletes". Certainly we welcome and encourage applictions from people who combine academic quality with...
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Foreign forces' right to invade
I appreciate Brad Blitz's writing (THES, September 1) that the Yugoslav National Army went into Croatia and Bosnia "before the international community recognised Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina". This...
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A strange twist of lemon
When is a lemon not a lemon? Readers of The THES (Sepember 1) might well have pondered this question when a picture of Leicester University's 16-acre Harold Martin Botanic Garden showed senior...
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Ministers missing 'basic' message
The THES (August 21), ministers and "experts" have expressed surprise and bewilderment at low GNVQ completion rates but the reasons and solutions for these are known and were well documented by Andy...
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Enrolling the aid of a telephone
In "Dial-a-course by touch phone cuts paperwork" (THES, August 25), it is reported that for the first time in Australia, and possibly the world, students seeking a university place in Victoria will...
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Branded dunces for just one exam
On August The Sunday Times revealed that some universities were accepting some school leavers with poor A level results on to foundation courses. Ignoring the fact that these students had to complete...
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Mandela steps in to race crisis
Karen Mac Gregor on the troubles rocking the predominantly Indian University of Durban-Westville. Internal politics over the past year at South Africa's University of Durban-Westville has degenerated...
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Foreigners cost too much for US
A new government policy designed to protect United States workers by limiting the number of foreigners that universities recruit is threatening the country's ability to compete globally in science...
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Sport offers a chance for the thinking man
John Callaghan is a professor of sport and is an expert on his subject in many more ways than one. The head of the department of exercise science at the University of Southern California is adept at...
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Fees fail to deter candidates
More than 2.53 million Chinese have applied to take this year's higher education entrance examinations, about 20,000 more than last year. Universities and colleges of higher education across the...
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Fix-it firm finds niche market in Italy
Private companies are springing up in Italy to guide students through the country's complex, bureaucratic and user-unfriendly university system. For a fee, the firms take students in hand, provide...
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Smoother path to democracy
States that have already undergone some economic and social modernisation under previous authoritarian regimes are likely to fare better in the transition to democracy. So argued Hans-Jeurgen Puhle,...
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History project grows into gene machine
The rule that technology changes lives, but never quite in the manner foreseen, is rarely better exemplified than in the career of Gerard Bouchard, professor of history at the University of Quebec,...
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Arson link to Pacific tests
One Friday night back in June Bosco Boscovich went out to dinner in Perth, Australia, with some friends from Curtin University. After a bottle or two of wine the talk turned to the decision by the...
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Canada sovereignty threat
Huw Richards reports from the International Congress of Historical Sciences meeting in Montreal last week. A strong sense of deja-vu grips Canada as it contemplates the siege of protesting native...