Students demand fee refund
Mature students taking a counselling certificate are demanding compensation from Glasgow Caledonian University Company for breach of contract over their course. The students, who include a nun, a GP...
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Arab call for jobs in Israel's academia
Israeli Arabs have appealed for government support for more tenured Arab staff in universities. In a letter to Amnon Rubinstein, minister of education, a group of Arab academics said that, despite...
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Worth more than my job, mate
When Huw Beynon published his first book it met with jeers and denials. He tells Martyn Kelly about the trials of investigating the shop floor. When I was a student I was strongly influenced by E. P...
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Summer breeze?
Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend their time during the summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The THES asked four of them what they area ctually doing. John Kidd Director of the James...
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Poisoned ink
Zhores Medvedev reports on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the bulk of Stalin's personal archive. This year academics in both East and West have been able to take advantage of several...
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Final frontiers
Science has obscured the once clear line between life and death and it is time our ethics developed in response, argues Peter Singer. After ruling our thoughts and our decisions about life and death...
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A fine old mess we've got into
The clearing season is moving into full swing. A-level results are out, people are looking for places. Institutions have geared themselves up for clearing - additional phone lines are staffed;...
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Don's Diary
Monday. At Mariry. At 4.30 am the cockerels go off. By six the grey light grows through heavy mist. Twittering finches in the secondary growth nearby, an Amazonian thrush singing further back in the...
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System due for change
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
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Amazement at pseudo avenues for advancements
Opinion (THES, August 4) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, identifies particular "avenues for advancement", the development of new concepts and capabilities, fusion of...
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Swerve theory for herds
Re academic freedom (THES, July 21, 28, August 11): in evaluating a work of social or political theory one may choose to examine its coherence or, alternatively, its "relevance". British academics...
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Trauma of the 3am bid for a university place
There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...
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It's a conspiracy of sniggers
I see you have decided once again to entertain readers with the "amusing" exam howlers certain academics seem to regard it as their duty to collect. However, given that many errors are due to the...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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Hath not a drama teacher eyes?
Peter Cox argues (THES, August 11) "the pursuit of educational drama . . . by enthusiasts has been largely responsible for drama being excluded from the National Curriculum as a subject in its own...