Why wait?
Rumour has it that Queuing Societies have been formed at some universities, with the sole purpose of forming queues that do not actually have any purpose. The devious members start queues and then...
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Welsh start statement regime
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Welsh higher education institutions this week became the first to submit...
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Virtual solution to urban malaise
Housing estates that soon turn into social disasters, offices with poor working environments and shopping precincts that fail to attract shoppers are familiar and depressing features of the urban...
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Ukrainians threaten pay delay protest
Ukrainian university lecturers and students have called for the dismissal of education minister Mykhaylo Zhurovsky and the adoption of an "emergency budget" to save the country's higher education...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry (Opinion, THES, September 20) argues that we should restrict the supply of engineering graduates by limiting access to degree courses to those who can display a very high level of...
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Dean of death
A university dean who has never visited a murder scene and has eyesight so poor he cannot even read a signed confession is now the best-known homicide expert in the US. Tim Cornwell reports....
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Catch in tax dodge
The suggestion in your report ("Tax dodgers spared axe", THES, September ) that the branch of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of West England was involved in negotiating preferential "no...
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A storm of emotion
"His previous books have covered such issues as sulking, guilt and anger," explains a Goldsmiths College press release about professor of counselling Windy Dryden. He should have plenty of material...
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Stone cold sobering
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis is undoubtedly a fine motto for a medical school, being both Hippocratic in origin and a reflection of the time doctors spend in training. But one has to question setting it in...
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Models for brave new world
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. By the end of the next academic year, every department at the College of...
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糖心Vlogless link to dads
A troubled upbringing is common among young, homeless drug users in Manchester, according to a new report, writes Kam Patel. Published by researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University last week,...
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China clamps down on poor doctorates
China is getting tough with universities that fail to meet established criteria for awarding doctorates and is to standardise the appraisal system for degrees later this year. There are 2,500...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's article is an interesting proposal but worthy of further testing. There are no academic absolutes in the criteria employed to determine admissions to any degree course. The A-level...
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The ethical economist
Andrew Robinson and Michael Prest profile Amartya Sen, the economist whose concern for justice stands out in a profession often obsessed with efficiency. With nearly 20 books, innumerable public...
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Catch in tax dodge
The University of West England's tax-free pay (TFP) scheme is no more a tax "dodge" than is deducting professional body subscriptions as an allowable expense in a tax return. It is a straightforward...