Picture quality control
(Photograph) - Picture quality control: Royal College of Art photography students boycotted the opening of their graduation exhibition this week to protest against RCA marking procedures. Full story...
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Scots aim to find what's in a name
Dunshelt or Dunshalt? The small Fife village confusingly boasts both spellings in its road signs. The second spelling has emerged from the belief that the name comes from "Danes' Halt", the place...
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Germany accused of wasting money on dropouts
Politicians and education officials have rejected a claim that a quarter of spending in universities and colleges is a wasted investment in dropouts. Detlef Muller-Boling, head of a higher education...
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The right to say right things
The attack (Letters, THES, May 24) on David Marsland's new book and his accompanying article (THES, May 17) was all too predictable. I have a simple question to put to one of his assailants, Marsland...
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Controls on the traffic of ideas
Martin Harris and John Howells take issue with Douglas Hague's warning that the information superhighway may bypass universities Douglas Hague's "Knowledge goes out to market" ( THES, May 24) offers...
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Plastic peril
Scientists probing hormone-disrupting chemicals say politicians should not wait until it is too late to act. Robert Allen reports. As health workers, mothers and baby milk manufacturers debate the...
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Campus strife: The University of Durban-Westville
(Photograph) - Campus strife: The University of Durban-Westville is closed following two weeks of violent protest. The university is the focus of a struggle for control of post-school education...
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Call for improved Brand
Edinburgh University has warned that one of its lecturers, "scientific racist" Chris Brand, could face disciplinary action if he does not change his teaching style. Mr Brand has been the object of...
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Inspectors round on teaching
Inspectors have strongly criticised primary teacher training at South Bank University. A report from the Office for Standards in Education concludes that three out of four key aspects of provision in...
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Invalid Ariane
Their products may go off with a bang, but it is hard to match the European Space Agency in the art of understatement. The opening sentence of their post-launch press release both put a brave face on...
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Mature students put down by young
Lecturers and their institutions have been urged to adopt a more sensitive approach to mature students following evidence that older undergraduates can become intimidated by bright teenage classmates...
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Lone crusader questions mass dismissal logic
Almost a year ago, Laszlo Hethelyi, a reader at Budapest's Technical University, was giving a mathematics tutorial when the phone rang. His head of department had bad news: Hethelyi, now 50 and a...
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The right to say right things
I am pleased that my article about welfare reform has stimulated debate. I can reassure any of your readers worried by Simon Batterbury's curious letter that my teaching and research are as balanced...
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Political failure?
Your report on the "failure" of Charlotte Mason College (THES, May 31) would have benefited from looking at the possible motivation behind Ofsted's negative assessment. The Government wishes to drive...
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Hitler's 'beautiful' eyes fail to charm publisher
A former Nazi diplomat is claiming that changes demanded by a UK publisher to clarify his autobiography alter the sense of his memoirs. Jennie Brookman and Sian Griffiths report. A former Nazi turned...