Sacked lecturer wins inquiry
David Rindos has been fighting a controversial decision by the University of Western Australia that cost him his job as a lecturer in archaeology for the past three years. Sacked because the...
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Minister vows to continue revolution
If the Israeli government is re-elected in this month's elections, education minister Amnon Rubinstein wants to keep his job and attain the targets he set three years ago. These include a 50 per cent...
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Student shot after exam party
A 20-year-old medical student at the unofficial Albanian University of Pristina in Kosovo, Macedonia, was shot dead as he walked home after celebrating his exam results. Amend Daci had been...
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Private university sets green agenda
A private university is helping to inject greater environmental awareness into the curriculum of Russian schools. International University in Moscow, whose rector Gennady Yagodin is a former senior...
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Chancellors resort to closure
Greek university chancellors have agreed to close their universities for a day in protest at the government's higher education policies. The move follows a row with the education ministry over the...
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Better not just richer
There are now as many students in the United Kingdom taking higher education courses in further education colleges as there were higher education students in total when Lord Robbins's committee...
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Healthy minds . . .
It seems that the United Kingdom is to get a Human Genetics Commission or something close to it. There are already many public and private organisations concerned with human genetics, but the sheer...
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First wash your hands
British academics are novices when it comes to rattling the tin at the door of big business, while Americans think nothing of pocketing seven-figure cheques. Last year, Harvard received a single...
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Methinks they protest too much
There is ill-disguised contempt within the higher education establishment for the to-ings and fro-ings which are supposed to have added up to a Government policy on higher education in recent years....
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Doctoral thesis
I share the concerns expressed in the article "Job cuts to mean worse doctors" (THES, April 26). But why are so many medical schools opting for a curriculum based on problem-based learning ? This is...
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Brand in firing line
Being one of the few people unfortunate enough to have read The g Factor by Chris Brand (THES, April 19 and April 26), I am fully in favour of its withdrawal. This is simply one of the worst books on...
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Brand in firing line
We condemn the discredited and inflammatory views expressed by Edinburgh University psychologist Christopher Brand which claim authoritatively to degrade black people and women. Would there be such "...
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Brand in firing line
I write in protest against the decision of John Wiley & Sons to withdraw The g Factor from publication. The book may contain statements about the relations between race (whatever that is) and...
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Brand in firing line
H. J. Eysenck ends his defence of the publication of The g Factor by quoting Voltaire's famous statement on the subject of free speech. This statement was not made by Voltaire but was invented more...
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Safeguarding science's foundations
The report of the National Academies Policy Advisory Group on the research capability of the university system (THES, April 19), argues for greater selectivity of research funding. It also recommends...