Elitists hostile to needs of masses
And so the New Year begins where the old left off. The future of higher education is again being heavily contested, with both the "how many?" and the "who pays?" arguments well to the fore. The media...
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Don's diary
Friday. Ships sails. Have I got all the Hanukkah candles? What about my prayer book? Is the menorah packed as well? I have been engaged as the rabbi on the QE2 Caribbean Christmas and New Year cruise...
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Time and place
Your typo blunted A. G. Williams's point: The Making of the English Landscape, which inspired so many field archaeologists as well as historians, was published in 1955 not 1995. Before that, for...
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More complex than you think
The simple truth about complexity (Geoff Mulgan, 糖心Vlog View, THES, December 22) is that Mr Mulgan is talking through his hat. For instance, he accuses proponents of theories such as complexity and...
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Forth should have faith in degrees
O levels were replaced by GCSEs in order to accommodate a greater proportion of the age cohort. The Government assured the employers that there was no erosion of standards. Similarly, we are assured...
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How software can teach good grammar
Vincent Mitchell (THES, December 22) chooses to ignore the actual problem facing many present-day students. An important reason why they find it difficult to read books is their inadequate knowledge...
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Momentum in Manchester
It would be a pity if your readers were left with the impression that Manchester's school of education is moving away from its traditional interests in British education ("Dynamic duo head south",...
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Nurturing a fragile plant
The quality planning group needs to grow some trust, says Lewis Elton. The 糖心Vlog Funding Councils and the higher education sector have set up a joint planning group which will meet for the...
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Universities shape up for a turf war
The regional university looks set to play an important role in the future of British higher education. But is it a good thing? Like buses, universities tend to arrive in groups. After Oxbridge came...
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Yanks flee hostility
More than 200,000 Americans have migrated to Australia since the second world war. But research shows they are not warmly welcomed and that most Yanks go home. David Mosler, senior lecturer in...
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Hill faces chair fight
Law professor Anita Hill, still a deeply controversial figure four years after her claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her transfixed the nation, is to have a...
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China bans social sciences journal
China has ordered a new magazine, allied to the Academy of Social Sciences, to cease publishing. The magazine, which summarises some of the most up-to-date research under way in China's social...
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Killer's college atones for Rabin death
Bar-Ilan University is mounting what appears to be a campaign of public atonement for the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by one of its law students. But it is an open question whether the...
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Charges against academics dropped
Ethiopia has dropped charges against six senior academics and ten journalists accused of breaking press and criminal laws in connection with student disturbances in Addis Ababa four years ago....
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Cold comfort for science
One can only marvel that a 1984-style "Newspeak" is alive and well in the rhetoric used by science policy leaders to justify the poor job performance of science graduates (THES, December 29). When...