Private piper calls tune
A prominent member of the Dearing inquiry into higher education, this week predicted that cash pressures could force universities into privatisation, with the Government losing its ability to...
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Come hither
Grievous disappointment for those expecting to see the perfect match of subject and speaker at this week's Institute for Contemporary British History Conference on a century of the popular press. The...
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Intuition wins Nobel prizes
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. "Armchair" thought - the type that leads to Nobel prizes - has been choked out of...
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Archaeologists get in the swim
The future of archaeology is underwater, claims Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano, director of the Italian culture ministry's underwater department and lecturer in underwater archaeology at Ravenna...
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Contract and connive
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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Counting cost of maths decline
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. The mathematical skills of students entering engineering and...
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Top-up fee 'to save staff'
The University of Huddersfield has defended suggestions that it may introduce a Pounds 1,000 student top-up fee by claiming other institutions are considering the same thing. In a financial forecast...
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Room for doubt
Iowa State University publishes a handbook for parents which includes the following invaluable advice: "When you visit campus, realise that anything messy, gross, illegal or distasteful 'belongs to...
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Algae for kingdom
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. The natural world should be reclassified into as many as ten kingdoms rather than...
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German historians hit back at Holocaust theory
A United States academic who claimed that ordinary Germans willingly helped the Nazis kill six million Jews has finally faced his German critics - and admitted that his book was flawed. Making his...
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Know for whom the bell tolls
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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Tables warning
League tables of qualifications should carry a Government health warning, a leading educationalist will tell conference today. Professor Roger Murphy, outgoing president of the British Educational...
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Quality plan defies minister
Higher education heads have overruled Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in their proposals for a unified quality regime. Members of the joint planning group for a...
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Hot air
It is always enjoyable to poke fun at politicians' poor grasp of science and Sir Ron Oxburgh, president of the British Association, has provided the latest example. In his presidential address to the...
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Malaysia makes quality sales pitch
Malaysia is tinkering with the idea of bringing state and private universities in line on degree accreditation in a move designed to further its ambition to become a regional centre of academic...