The second great balloon debate
Last week young scientists, plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon, debated which of them should jump to allow one of them to float to safety. This week our great balloon debate focuses...
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Law firms' all-clear
A voluntary clearing house for law graduates hoping to train as barristers has won the backing of some of Britain's most prestigious sets of chambers. The Bar Council said this week it was relieved...
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Fair's fair in a battle for votes
The past month has seen two bitter rows about education. The most prominent, the Battle of St Olave's, was a heady cocktail of selection in schools with a gripping subplot about hypocrisy and about...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. All-night technical preparations in London for our touring student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which we are taking to the West Bank and Gaza. Unsettling arrival in Israel:...
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Fertile fields of ideas
Over the past decades, research into higher education has developed from a small collection of studies with a narrow pedagogical orientation into a more comprehensive field encompassing a large...
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When alpha is a non-starter
Between 1983 and 1985 I held an Economic and Social Research Council project grant - the first that I had ever applied for. Since that time my research has been funded by a variety of European...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Robin Dunbar's arguments (Grey natter, THES, January 26), like those of Geoff Miller whom he cites, are persuasive. But they have a blindspot with regard to their implications for women, especially...
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Whistle blown on Russell referees
Just before Christmas a colleague from another university asked me to be one of his nominated referees in his application for promotion. Nothing unusual in this, I have acted in such a capacity on...
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Test bed of truly Euro science
Martin Daunton appears to have rewritten a bit of history in his glowing review of The origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th centuries: economic systems and state finance edited by...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Having failed in three attempts at promotion in the last 12 months (one internal and two external) I was arrested by the picture of the new honorary doctor of civil law, Howard Phelps, on the...
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Suffering students hit again
In proposing to introduce tuition fees, university bosses are passing on Government cuts to those least able to afford them - students. Students are already suffering, under-achieving and dropping...
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Benefits when east meets west
I am one of the many western environmental "experts" who has "jetted in" to Romania and Hungary in recent years. I share the concerns of colleagues in central and eastern Europe and the United...
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British Council stands for national advantage
I fear the focus of Roger Iredale's views on partnership and competition (THES, January 17) is unduly influenced by his experience as education supremo at the Overseas Development Agency, his...
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Pizza impress
Peter Boizot received his honorary degree from the University of Westminster in person in recognition of his services to the City of Westminster and the Venice in Peril Appeal. His pizzas, like our...
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The levy is for turning round
A special levy would focus minds on how desperately underfunded HE really is, says Gareth Roberts. Over the past few years, universities have argued with the Government that continuing reductions in...