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...
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Patents is a virtue
Universities must make the most of their innovative ideas in science and technology to secure wealth for the nation, argues Ian Taylor British science is world class and builds on a tradition of...
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Training for the temps
Of course one shares with the Association of University Teachers some alarm that less than one third of "lecturer stand-ins" have received any training (THES, May 3). But how does this compare with...
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Funding turns on completion not pass
Len Arthur (THES, May 3) expresses concern regarding the method by which the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for Wales is to fund part-time provision from next year onwards; in particular that...
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Happy birthday to us SAUL
A twentieth birthday party! Not for a beloved child - although it felt like it - but for a pension scheme called SAUL (Superannuation Arrangements for the University of London). It happened last week...
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Don's diary
Tuesday. At Heathrow, World's Favourite Airline. The seat number 20C was not an allocation it was merely a request. In the view of the Customer Services rep, I and a dozen others had checked in "late...
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The last generation
Men will become infertile by the middle of the next century unless certain man-made chemicals are banned, zoologist Theo Colborn tells Robert Allen. More than 30 years ago science fiction author...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Normally Paula Radcliffe is to be found racing around campus or Bradgate Park in Loughborough at 7 o'clock each morning. In the evening, daylight permitting, it is the same routine. She runs 80 miles...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Some 10 per cent of the UK's Olympic contenders are expected to come from higher education. Lucy Hodges discovers how they manage to combine their studies with a gruelling exercise schedule. It is...
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New Instant Science!
Literary intellectuals are so ignorant about science, some scientists are claiming, that it is best to avoid their 'uninstructed' mediation and write directly to the public. Jon Turney is unconvinced...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Hockey has been Guy Fordham's passion since the age of 12. He began playing the game at Kingston Grammar School and found himself progressing from school team to county level and thence to the...
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The implausible pundits
Why do magazines and newspapers highlight the wrong academic arguments? Paul Krugman has an explanation Late in the summer of 1992 I received the page proofs of an article I had written for a liberal...
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Philosophy in performance
Rolf Hughes reports on a Swedish initiative to rethink the relationship between learning and work. Miroslav Holub was recently asked about his dual identity as a celebrated Czech poet and a leading...
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Push for research cash limit
The movement towards concentrating research funding in a smaller number of university departments will receive fresh impetus next week with the publication of the Harris review of postgraduate...