Straitjackets and business ties
J. R. Shackleton, below, and Richard Harris, right, join The THES debate to argue against the rigidity of inspection proposals in favour of flexibility. It is difficult to find reasoned dissent from...
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Star of the big screen
Gail Vines meets Theresa Marteau, a health psychologist committed to exploring the consequences of giving people the information uncovered by genetic testing. Talk to Theresa Marteau about the "...
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U-turn on the Budget
The Government is to reconsider the higher education Budget cuts announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last November. In the first public acknowledgement that the Budget dealt too harshly with...
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Teacher fight ahead
University-based teacher training is in jeopardy following the Government's announcement that it intends to set course content. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has warned that plans...
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Triesman vows to reject 1.5% pay rise
Lecturers' union leader David Triesman launched a three-pronged attack on employers today as the two sides began the battle over pay in earnest. Mr Triesman, general secretary of the Association of...
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In the wrong league
Strathclyde University believes there are lies, damned lies and The Times League Table. The university was miffed by its relatively low showing, especially as, for example, it was marked low on...
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Wired tongue helps disabled
The remarkable dexterity of the human tongue has been harnessed by medical engineers to help the severely disabled. They hope that patients who cannot control their head or limb movements enough to...
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Lucky Liverpool
Only two areas in the UK, Merseyside and the Highlands and Islands, have EU "Objective 1" status, earmarked for economic regeneration, and the Highlands and Islands is still battling for a higher...
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Meltdown looms in the staff room
Is there a crisis in teacher training? Yes, but not the one featuring in Government pronouncements. Is there a need to eradicate the legacy of the 1960s? Yes, but which legacy? Education minister...
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Decline but do not mourn
When Bernard Wasserstein abandons the sociological mask of objectivity, he also seems to abandon some of his reasoning power (THES, May 3). He says it is axiomatic that all forms of cultural...
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Burden of spoof
Andrew Ross takes Alan Sokal, writer of a hoax cultural studies article, to task. The American media extensively covered the story of a physicist who published a spoof article in a leading cultural...
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Many Abbey returns
(Photograph) - Many Abbey returns: Students of George Martin's Salford University course in popular music recording recreate the Beatle's Abbey Road album cover in recognition of his knighthood in...
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Lead the dance
(Photograph) - Lead the dance: This ballgown by Kasha Morawsa, a fine art student at the University of Middlesex, might be a little tiring for a night of waltzes and foxtrots. Made of lead, it weighs...
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Dead mail
Equal opportunities is the latest area to come under the influence of higher education's quality obsession. The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England has asked institutions to send it, before...
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Do researchers dream of ROPAs?
The Office of Science and Technology is planning a survey of researchers' attitudes to a troubled multimillion pound scheme to boost links between industry and scientists. The Pounds 70 million...