Last straws and red herrings
Anthea Millett (THES, July 5) is right to want to keep universities on board in the education and training of teachers. She is right to want a nationally available provision for all BEd and...
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A voice for lost innocence
For over 20 years some 100 children in one county were sexually abused while in care. Jane Tunstill was a member of the inquiry into what went wrong, but its report was never published. Now at last,...
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Franchise brochures jumped gun
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Mown down
Tragedy has struck at the Australian National University. Flotsam and Jetsam were elected visiting fellows with a free grant of grass earlier this year. But the tenure of the two lawn-mowing rabbits...
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Sinister surveillance
Sophisticated Gulf War technology is finding its way on to the high streets of Britain as electronic surveillance moves into a new and sinister era driven by powerful commercial interests. At a...
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V-cs join unions to demand cash
Australia's vice chancellors and the main academic union have joined forces for the first time to present a budget submission to the federal government. The submission is a crucial outcome of an...
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Last straws and red herrings
It was unfortunate that Anthea Millett's justification of a "national curriculum" for teacher education cited only one specific role for higher education in teacher education: the consolidation of...
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Russians dying for a drink
Are more Russian men dying from alcoholism because the government finds sozzled citizens easier to control? Zhores Medvedev reports on a country awash with alcohol. In 1988 1.57 million people died...
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Nelson Mandela receives eight honorary degrees at Buckingham Palace
(Photograph) - Nelson Mandela received eight honorary degrees at Buckingham Palace this week from the London School of Economics and Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Nottingham, Warwick, De Montfort and...
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Chiefs renamed
The Association of Colleges is the name of the new unified employers' organisation representing further education, it was announced this week. The association is the product of the merger of the...
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Hot on the trail
Stuck for somewhere to go this summer? Switch discipline to vulcanology and head for the Caribbean. Several universities have recently announced that their researchers are heading there to examine...
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Europe may lose space race place
European cosmologists were warned last week that they are in danger of losing their stake in space telescopy unless they get involved in Nasa's plans to replace the Hubble telescope. Bob Fosbury, of...
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Post-apartheid jobs scramble
South Africa is tightening its borders in the face of growing calls by black people for locals to be given jobs before foreigners. The move is expected to hit hard at universities and technikons that...
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Last straws and red herrings
The report (THES, June 28) of financial concerns over initial teacher training contained a number of inaccuracies and red herrings. There is no doubt that providers of primary initial teacher...
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Some Rhodes lead to freedom
The Anti-Apartheid Movement's archive has found a home. Simon Targett reports. Cecil Rhodes was not noted for his anti-apartheid credentials. President of the Cape Colony, head of the De Beers mining...