Safeguarding science's foundations
The recommendations about science research funding in universities from the NAPAG are worrying. Clearly, there is a worsening problem of funding science research in universities and, if the current...
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Safeguarding science's foundations
The NAPAG report claims to be concerned with protecting internationally competitive science and supporting the best research fully. It suggests that one way of doing this is to stop funding 2-rated...
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Safeguarding science's foundations
Tony Trinci (THES, April 19) has summarised the problems of the academic science base in no uncertain manner. The system is designed to dissipate almost every act of creativity and innovation. Small...
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Welsh wheeze in funding
The feature on Welsh higher education (THES, April 26) misses one development that is not a model for higher education elsewhere and should be of serious concern: output funding of part-time modules...
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A national measure for minds
Should higher education have a national curriculum? Anthony Woollard it should.. In at least half the courses for a degree we need a core curriculum and national examinations." You might expect such...
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A national measure for minds
The debate about teaching, learning and assessment in higher education sometimes seems a long way from what matters most - the individual student's overall intellectual and personal experience of...
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Fair dinkum fee paying
Australia, land of the fair go, is widely perceived as having a student support system that is one of the best and fairest in the world. Federally funded higher education institutions are (currently...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday. It is bitterly cold as I set off from Gatwick. At the check-in a man asks the purpose of my visit. I tell him I'm going to a conference in Columbia, South Carolina, and he says he has just...
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When the limelight gets turned off
Education is emerging as the decisive election battleground. For Labour, like many left-wing parties, education has taken on a particular symbolic and practical importance. It is being presented not...
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Much ado
Jonathan Bates fears for the future of the Arden Shakespeare Prologue Editing Shakespeare is like painting the Forth Rail Bridge: no sooner have you finished than new knowledge and new approaches...
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The last chapter of a Jewish chronicle?
The Jews of Europe are fast disappearing and the Continent will be the poorer for it, argues Bernard Wasserstein Bad news is never welcome. So I suppose I should not have been surprised at the chorus...
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Reading, a city dreaming of spires
Higher education has expanded enormously in the past few years, but it was not always so easy. Ged Martin catalogues some centuries-old attempts to found British universities. Britain and Ireland now...
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When the anoraks wear mink
Sociologist Sherry Turkle talks to Aisling Irwin about the potential and pitfalls of reconstructing oneself in virtual reality Tarniwoof said: "Do you promise to take Silver Shimmering Winterlight as...
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Mother Earth's vociferous children
George McKay reports on the rise of small-scale 'in-yer-face' non-violent protesting. In his 1960s classic, The Making of a Counter Culture, Theodore Roszak pointed to parliamentary stalemate as one...
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Sex and the single gene
Talk of a "gay gene" has raised fears that genetic engineering could eliminate homosexuality. But Simon Le Vay argues that its discovery may have a positive effect on public attitudes A recent spate...