Class of 96 fails to face facts
Millions of students graduated college in the United States this spring with crisp diplomas, happy memories, bright prospects and apparently very little command of general knowledge. A survey of 500...
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Image isn't everything
Like several other academics and British Pakistanis, I am not convinced by the movie project on Jinnah as advocated by Akbar Ahmed (Perspective, THES, May 31). Himself a senior civil servant...
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A special class of character building
Schools and universities in the United States are trying to teach something that as yet has no place on Britain's curricula. It is called character education, and what they mean is the cultivation of...
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France unveils reforms
Long-awaited university reform plans unveiled in Paris this week are more an attempt at "social engineering" than fundamental remodelling, according to French education ministry officials. Critics...
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Unenlightened
We have all heard of lectures that leave you in the dark, but never quite as completely as at Trinity College, Dublin. Not that the lecturers were at fault - despite its Anglicised image, Trinity...
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Edinburgh cash scandal
A former assistant finance director at Edinburgh University has been barred from professional practice after admitting three charges of misconduct at a disciplinary tribunal. Kendrick Macpherson was...
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Disabled sound out the music
A University of Warwick lecturer is investigating how sound can help disabled children with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties to communicate. For the past two years, Phil Ellis, a...
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U-turn for India
The new Indian government has reversed the policy of its predecessor and stopped further privatisation of higher education. Cuts in funding will be restored and a bill to overcome the constitutional...
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A thorough examination please
With regards to David Abel (THES, June 14), it is not agreed that traditional exams "are at least one of the more objective forms of assessment". There is considerable evidence that traditional exams...
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Hot under the collar
Health and family life are being damaged by workaholic cultures and the trend towards short-term contracts and freelance working. Cary Cooper looks at the feel-bad factors. Every decade this century...
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Expulsion legal battle
A former student union vice president was due to appear in the High Court this week seeking a judicial review of South Bank University's decision to expel him. Six other former union executive...
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Running on empty
Folk at Brunel and Oxford may fuss about honouring Lady Thatcher, but in Israel they are made of sterner stuff. Trumpetting research by Meir Lahav and Leslie Leiserowitz, the Weizmann Institute in...
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Barre reflection
(Photograph) - Barre reflection: Nicole Tongue from Birmingham Royal Ballet is wired up to the treadmill monitoring equipment at the University of Wolverhampton, where the school of health sciences...
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Excellent Edinburgh
Ken Munro, the European Commission's head of representation in Scotland, says Edinburgh University has long been renowned as a European centre of excellence. "That reputation has been enhanced in...
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Paper wars turn Lot's Wife to pillar of salt
Some of Australia's oldest and, at times, most notorious university student newspapers are being forced to close. Student newspapers have been challenging authority and questioning government...