Think hard before you list
At around this time every year intending students are visiting bookshops and public libraries with lists of books they are advised to read before their higher education course begins. The idea of...
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Temple of learning needs no new gods
Who would refuse a Pounds 20 million gift for a new management school? Oxford University's Alexander Murray would A proposal is afoot to build a school of management studies on a playing field near...
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British guide to IT
A task force to advise government on the creation of a society at ease with the rapid developments in information and communications technologies should be set up by the end of this year, according...
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UK looks all set for elite band
The Government has given the first official indications that it may be in favour of the creation of an elite league of British universities, by urging Sir Ron Dearing to consider the possibilities of...
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Dispute over costs of flagship schools
A Government study on funding education for 16 to 19-year-olds contains serious errors, according to further education associations. The six associations claim that Tory flagship grant-maintained...
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Party spokesman seeks Labour seat
Labour party further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies is still without a seat in which to fight the next election after being defeated in the selection battle for Wythenshawe and Sale. Mr...
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UACE attacks Euro blueprint
The Universities Association for Continuing Education has condemned the European Commission's white paper on teaching and learning as "too modest" in its policy proposals. UACE, which represents 104...
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Campuses urged to strip assets
A leading Australian business analyst and forecaster has urged universities to sell off all their property holdings, with an estimated worth of up to Aus$10 billion (Pounds 5 billion), and use the...
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Wood that they had their just desserts
Tony Wood, vice chancellor at Luton (THES, July 26) ingenuously assumes that it is axiomatic that institutions such as his which have vastly and autonomously increased their student numbers, in some...
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The end of science
Scientists have solved the explainable mysteries of the universe, John Horgan believes. All they can do now is fill in the details and practise their craft 'ironically'. These are trying times for...
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Call to cut medical course bureaucracy
The relationship between universities and the health professions that validate their courses is bureaucratic and prone to difficulties, a major report says. The professions' council, which validates...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the last novel of a crime writer who was married to an archaeologist: "Hannibal took a step towards him, received a tap on the shoulder and gently wagged his tail. '...
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An illicit but stable affair
One Hundred Years of Socialism
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Did old ghosts drive the Nazi demons?
Nazi Germany
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Heroes, for the use and abuse of
Stauffenberg