Star Turn: Malcolm Parry
David Mosford talks to a charismatic Welshman who wants to see architecture in vogue  Malcolm Parry does not believe in teaching. This may seem odd coming from someone who is head of the Welsh...
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Commonwealth bid to promote scholarships to African colleges
Forget Princeton or the Sorbonne - British students will have more opportunities to study at African universities if plans being discussed among Commonwealth student-mobility specialists come to...
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Elite push frontiers in widening access
Harmonica playing could prove as effective as good A-level scores in securing a place at the United Kingdom's most prestigious higher education institutions. The European Access Network, which is...
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'BSE lessons not learnt'
Crucial lessons from the BSE crisis have not been learnt by the government, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, a former member of the BSE inquiry committee, has warned. Scientific expertise remained untapped by...
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Oxford and Imperial lead in the spin-off age
Oxford University was crowned the most innovative university in Britain in a business competition last week, with Imperial College, London, coming a close second. Dundee was awarded best emerging...
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Journals rebellion in need of support
Librarians and scholars who have been setting up non-commercial alternatives to high-priced journals say more academics need to join the fight to achieve a more balanced marketplace. In recent years...
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Values crushed by compulsion
In trying to push the indifferent to to get a degree, we degrade the university system, Frank Furedi argues. This month's Universities UK statement on widening participation indicates that the...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES: Richard Ryder argued that the prejudice in favour of the human species is looking ever more irrational. I have no great difficulty with the notion that it is "irrational" to...
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Crisis as 8,000 places unfilled
Students are spurning new universities, provoking a recruitment crisis at several institutions. Over the past seven years, some 22,000 new university places have gone unfilled, 8,000 in 2000-01 alone...
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Next week
NEWS The 20-year hitch: the cutbacks that changed the course of Aston and Salford's history. FEATURES Education behind bars: the role of learning in the prison system; Medieval Congress. RESEARCH New...
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Welsh snub 'sneering' paper
A Bangor University academic's submission to the Welsh Assembly's higher education review has been condemned as "offensive" and "anti-English". Dafydd Glyn Jones, a reader in Welsh language and...
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Rising starlet fires at college
A rising star of haute couture claims his career has been damaged by unfair treatment at the hands of Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. Jan Bertelsen, a third-year undergraduate who...
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Strike on cards as lecturers' unions divide over pay
Further education lecturers may go ahead with a two-day strike after union leaders rejected an improved pay offer on a par with school teachers' awards, writes Tony Tysome. At a meeting of the...
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QAA activity is set to be stifled
The volume of university teaching quality inspections could be slashed beyond the 40 per cent cut ordered by former education secretary David Blunkett, under a new quality assurance blueprint, writes...
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Rome roam
Neil Garrod (pictured), Glasgow University's dean of law and financial studies, after completing the last leg of a 2,400km, 54-day run from Rome to Glasgow, reconstructing the journey of the papal...