Best footnote forward
Signs of erudition or academic machismo? Sarah Nelson objects to the Triffid- like mushrooming of references. I am appalled by academics. If many are appalled in return, we can initiate a rigorous...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Here I am in berserkly Berkeley. After two sabbatical months, I can find my way around at least geographically. My office in the Center for Studies in 糖心Vlog is at the heart of the...
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Doctors in waiting . . . for rockets
It is springtime in Afghanistan where Kabul University has been de-mined and is ready to open. Christine Aziz reports At the medical faculty, one of the few campus buildings that has remained...
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Kabul campus countdown
It is springtime in Afghanistan where Kabul University has been de-mined and is ready to open. Christine Aziz reports There is very little left of Kabul University. Destroyed and mutilated buildings...
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Lily-whites under fire
The shock waves continue to spread from the decision by a United States appeals court to throw out the University of Texas's affirmative action programmes, designed to boost the enrolment of minority...
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Universities feed religious divide
The Lebanese government, under pressure from powerful religious lobbies, is licensing six new universities, three of them directly run by religious organisations. The decision has led to fierce...
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Fake degrees are a boom industry in Italy
Bogus universities are worrying the Italian university ministry and agencies that advise home and foreign students. Advertising in the press, the universities promise, for a hefty fee, "a degree for...
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V-cs tell faculties to fend for themselves
Australian universities have begun a desperate search for alternative sources of funding from federal government. The incoming conservative administration in Canberra has vowed to slash spending by...
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Exploding the myth of a PFI panacea
The Government's plans to involve the private sector in the construction and operation of large projects through the Private Finance Initiative has made little impact in higher education. Despite the...
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The battle for quality
If news of plans emerging from the joint planning group for Britain's new higher education quality agency are correct - and if wiser counsels do not prevail before they are finalised - a hard-won...
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Handle with great care
The next contentious issue to surface in higher education looks likely to be the future of higher level General National Vocational Qualifications. An apparently innocuous consultation paper is the...
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Universities for what?
The few clues as to how Sir Ron Dearing expects his forthcoming review of UK higher education to shape up include strong indications that he will be looking to see what contribution new technologies...
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Labour group deserts student interests
National Union of Students president Jim Murphy has done his utmost to undermine the NUS policy of free education policy over the past year. And at the annual conference in Blackpool last week, he...
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Time for a new policy
Richard Clogg's article on Cambridge University Press (THES, March 29) raises questions about the consultations made in the course of rejecting Dr Karakasidou's manuscript. These consultations were...
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Media dons spread the word
In a recent editorial ( THES, March 15) the view was given that genetic research must not be reported in a vacuum and that different disciplines rarely met to discuss their work. The debate about...