A measure of freedom
James Tooley explains how the return of IQ testing could liberate education from credentialism. It would be disingenuous to say that I wrote an essay mentioning IQ without thinking that it would get...
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Speaking your mind
Do speakers of different languages see the world in different ways? Mark Pagel reports on whether language structures the brain. Modern humans are in many ways very mediocre apes. We are not so big,...
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Gloom trimming for job adverts
There is a growing literature on the marketing of higher education in general, and individual universities and colleges in particular. It is another side of the "higher education as business" thesis...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. With my colleague Dave Hill give a talk to student teachers, teachers and lecturers at Soweto College of Education on politics and education in Britain. In the ensuing discussion, those...
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Bard barb
Ann Thompson (THES, June 23) calls my book The Real Shakespeare "pugilistic" and so forth. But I am dealing with people like Ann Thompson, whose 1984 Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew...
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Admission on equal terms
It is no surprise that universities and industry have welcomed with open arms students holding new vocational A levels. (THES, June 30). Colleges have embraced these new qualifications...
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A valuable Dutch lesson in research assessment
I recently spent a week chairing one of the discipline committees set up by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) for the assessment of research quality in Dutch universities....
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Follett's FIG leaf for libraries
English university libraries will have 25,000 more seats soon, thanks to the Follett report, says Frederick Friend. The report of the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group, chaired by Sir...
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Judgement day for dentistry experts
The High Court decision in the Institute of Dentistry case puts responsibility on the shoulders of individuals as well as the committees they form, G. R. Evans says. Up to now it has been been...
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An unfair 'trading' tax to be avoided
Recent moves by the Inland Revenue to impose taxation on universities and further education colleges will add millions of pounds to the cost of providing higher education. The introduction of new tax...
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Steps to meet the huge increase in foreign students
The THES report (June 23) on the economic benefits of international students based on the recently published Committe of Vice Chancellors and Principals report comes at a time when more attention is...
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Labour supports highest standards of probity
Readers of your editorial page (THES, June 23) might be forgiven for detecting a contradictory note. In one editorial you acknowledged that the Nolan committee will have much to look at during its...
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God power
By some misfortune, Richard Swinburne is misrepresented in Gerard Kelly's very capable article about me (THES, June 30). A firm theological realist, Swinburne may well be described as one for whom...
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Hard sell for inventions
It is neither the scientists nor engineers in our universities that are "patently poor at capitalising on ideas" (THES, June 23) but the people who represent them. University researchers and teaching...
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Socrates set for demand crisis
European education ministers have warned that demand could far outstrip European Union funding when the new programme for educational exchanges and language learning gets off the ground. Socrates,...