Viennese waltz on to streets in cuts protest
Austrian students are traditionally a good-natured, non-violent lot. One has to go back to 1848 to find real student radicalism. It is a standard joke that in Austria the May revolt of 1968 lasted...
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Industry's output fear
Austerity measures announced by Berlin's higher education senator Peter Radunsky have prompted a wave of outrage in its three universities. More than 26,000 students and university staff demonstrated...
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Intellectuals arrested at Chernobyl demonstration
A Belarusian physicist is in prison without access to a lawyer and a lecturer from Minsk Polytechnic Academy in hospital with brain injuries as a result of a police attack on a rally to mark last...
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Bluff and nonsense
British universities have launched a campaign aimed at reversing cuts in funding imposed last autumn. They are demanding a halt to the squeeze on per capita funding, restoration of capital...
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Drum up cash or hit case
The Labour party's shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown, has caused some ructions in his party by proposing to remove automatic entitlement to child benefit from 16 to 19-year-olds so that the Pounds 700...
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Testing times on credibility
The 糖心Vlog Quality Council wants to be the core of the independent quality assurance agency now on the drawing board. If it is to do so, it must produce reports on institutions which are...
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Stub this bad idea out now
A fracas is developing at the University of Cambridge over plans to accept tobacco industry money to found a new chair. The University of Cambridge is considering a proposal to accept a donation of...
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Brand versus the pc bullies
The issue, (The colour of intelligence, THES, April 26) as Hans Eysenck observes, is one of free speech, the rest is politically-correct bullying. I should also point out that Mr Brand lives in Great...
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Labour lost in Arden takeover
Jonathan Bate ("Much ado", THES, May 3) worries about the future of the Arden Shakespeare after the International Thomson takeover of Routledge. He would have done much better to have worried earlier...
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Place your bets in sum wager
So Chris Ormell thinks he has a proof of the Fermat Theorem (Don's Diary, THES, April 26) and is prepared to offer Pounds 100 to anyone who finds a mistake. Well, I have not got time to find his...
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Customers come first on campus
If Ross Brennan (THES, May 3) wanted to set the adrenalin in motion on a bitterly cold Friday morning, he succeeded. What is more, he was right in what he said about teachers, nurses, the police and...
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True cost of academic life
Congratulations to my former colleague Tom Wilson for pointing out the facts of academic life regarding workloads and material rewards (Letters, THES, April 19). But why did he, like most others,...
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The Italian job: there's no material difference
If indeed the language department of the University of Bergamo is as bad as Richard Davies describes it, why should he have chosen to go there ("Academia as Roman holiday", THES, April 26)? Surely...
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The Italian job: there's no material difference
I share many of Richard Davies's criticisms. However, his article is full of generalisations and misconceptions. Having studied and worked in both Italian and English universities I have come to...
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Marks of grade inflation
If the likely degree grade has, indeed, risen over the past 20 years (Colin Lawson, THES, April 19) there are two factors which may have influenced this change. In many higher education institutions...