Serbian blames Uncle Sam
VOJISLAV Seselj, once a dissident academic and now leader of the extreme-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, has accused the United States of financing the Student Protest 96/97 movement. The leaders...
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Emerald tiger seeks help
The Irish government is to invite tenders from colleges in the rest of the European Union to help meet emerging skill shortages in computing and languages. It fears that Irish universities and other...
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Take the purse but cut the strings
Just what is a university? One school of thought says that it is, in the vocabulary of the European Court, an "emanation of the state," largely paid for by the government, having a licence to trade...
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Should codes of ethics go on the map?
Should learned societies and professional bodies have codes of ethics? Some argue that all such societies need to identify a common code of ethical behaviour that marks them out as distinct and gives...
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Should you choose to accept it...
Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government dogma? Researchers beware: the Department of Trade and Industry wants you as a new recruit, warns John Griffith. We are facing...
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Collision courses
Hopeless contradictions in funding council policy point to the conflicting demands of government pressure, argues G. R. Evans. Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government...
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'The only option is to go private'
Excellence plus full funding could equal a degree costing Pounds 50,000 or more. Ron Johnston says. The vice chancellors of Cambridge, Edinburgh, University College London and Warwick have declared "...
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Unwanted science dictates
NICHOLAS Humphrey's diatribe in Perspective (THES, February 28) was a staggering piece of myopic hypocrisy. He argues that "science does not cajole, it does not dictate" and that it allows us to "...
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Unwanted science dictates
PROFESSOR Humphrey's ill-reasoned argument for mandatory science instruction contains at least three fallacies. First, he presumes that a belief in God is tantamount to a disbelief in science. Not...
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A nursing remedy
I HAVE followed two seemingly separate issues with interest: the debate on the merits of nurse education's wholesale arrival into higher education establishments (THES, February 14) and the teaching...
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Don's diary
Tuesday. The week, like the semester, is dominated by Shakespeare. I begin teaching a module called "The Shakespeare Phenomenon" which considers the place of Shakespeare in late 20th century culture...
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Union recruiters for social partnership
On the face of it, universities and unions have little in common. Trade unions are essentially defensive organisations protecting their members' jobs and pay, a bit like an insurance company for the...
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US right rues civic apathy
What chutzpah! After two decades in ascendancy, conservatives have put the question "Is American democracy dying?" at the top of their political agenda. However exasperating it is, Americans...
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Scratch 'measles approach'
GRADUATE jobs may be a thing of the past because of the huge expansion of higher education and multi-skilling requirements of industry, according to a senior industry training manager. "We still...
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Gillian Shephard speaks at the Further Education Development Agency conference
Education secretary Gillian Shephard also spoke at the conference, and outlined five challenges for further education in the future. It must: manage growth within available funding by increasing...