Call for improved Brand
Edinburgh University has warned that one of its lecturers, "scientific racist" Chris Brand, could face disciplinary action if he does not change his teaching style. Mr Brand has been the object of...
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Inspectors round on teaching
Inspectors have strongly criticised primary teacher training at South Bank University. A report from the Office for Standards in Education concludes that three out of four key aspects of provision in...
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Invalid Ariane
Their products may go off with a bang, but it is hard to match the European Space Agency in the art of understatement. The opening sentence of their post-launch press release both put a brave face on...
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Mature students put down by young
Lecturers and their institutions have been urged to adopt a more sensitive approach to mature students following evidence that older undergraduates can become intimidated by bright teenage classmates...
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Lone crusader questions mass dismissal logic
Almost a year ago, Laszlo Hethelyi, a reader at Budapest's Technical University, was giving a mathematics tutorial when the phone rang. His head of department had bad news: Hethelyi, now 50 and a...
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The right to say right things
I am pleased that my article about welfare reform has stimulated debate. I can reassure any of your readers worried by Simon Batterbury's curious letter that my teaching and research are as balanced...
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Political failure?
Your report on the "failure" of Charlotte Mason College (THES, May 31) would have benefited from looking at the possible motivation behind Ofsted's negative assessment. The Government wishes to drive...
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Hitler's 'beautiful' eyes fail to charm publisher
A former Nazi diplomat is claiming that changes demanded by a UK publisher to clarify his autobiography alter the sense of his memoirs. Jennie Brookman and Sian Griffiths report. A former Nazi turned...
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Offshore link censured
A quality watchdog has criticised the quality of overseas franchise arrangements in a second institute of higher education. A draft report by the 糖心Vlog Quality Council finds fault with...
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Natfhe builds strike fund
Lecturers' union Natfhe is setting up a national strike fund levy, reflecting a growing mood of militancy among members faced with job cuts. It is also considering a merger with another education...
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University chiefs fear quality cost
Chiefs of universities and colleges are worried about the cost and practicalities of a unified quality regime, it emerged this week. Responses to the first report of the joint planning group, which...
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Well, that's Rich!
Alumnus to be proud of no. 52 has to be this week's unluckiest politician, his career possibly finished by allegations that he has merely been doing to a named individual what his government has been...
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Equipment goes down the tubes...
Kam Patel reports on a survey that reveals many research laboratories are limping along with decrepit equipment. Centrifuges, fermenters, scintillation counters, computers and spectrophotometers -...
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Police and archaeologists join forces in forensic class
Police officers and archaeologists will be classmates on a new postgraduate course at Bourne- mouth University. The school of conservation sciences is launching a course in forensic archaeology to...
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Swedes switch rules
Sweden is to recentralise university and college admissions despite protests by Sweden's university and college rectors. Social Democrat education minister Carl Tham won parliamentary approval last...