Sacking threat to lecturers
Sixty two lecturers at Bedfordshire College of Further Education face dismissal by the end of this month unless they sign new contracts. The college has told staff still on the old "silver book"...
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Principals fight engineering cuts
Further education colleges are scaling down their engineering departments so far that a lobby group has been formed by college principals seeking to halt the widespread trend, writes Alison Utley....
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Skeleton staff
Tim Cornwell reports on how anthropologists in the United States are helping to solve crimes and investigate human rights abuses. It was a snapshot of Haiti's dark legacy, a vivid memory of terror in...
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Conflicts of interest
Combatants in a war are driven by a sense of duty rather than by aggression, argues Robert A. Hinde When one person intentionally harms another, we desc- ribe the behaviour as aggression. When one...
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Quoting an Arab
Stella Hughes reports on the furore caused by the publication of a supposedly anonymous interview by an academic on a disaffected youth who was shot by French police as a terrorist. (below) outlines...
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Democrats caught in the crossfire
To understand the violent conflict that has been tearing Algeria apart for almost four years it is necessary to understand the country's politics - the character of the current government as well as...
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Final frontiers
In the last major interview he gave before his death this week, Ernest Gellner told Simon Targett why, despite bloody Bosnia and divided Quebec, he still believed that ethnic nationalism would not...
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Finding time to think
Clare Short says politicians and academics should work together to turn ideas into action. This Saturday our "New Thinking on Women" conference will be held at Birkbeck College, London. The purpose...
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We deserve prize of pay review body body
While I agree wholeheartedly with Amanda Hart of Natfhe about the need to redress the erosion of academic salaries (THES, letters, October ) I am less sanguine that a one-off independent pay review...
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Russia's private sadness
Nick Holdsworth's article on private colleges in Russia (THES, October 20) is in some respects misleading. The private sector of higher education in that sad land does not comprise about a third of...
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Geography loses its way for one assessor
As someone who has been involved with the recent teaching quality assessment exercise in geography, both as an assessor and as a member of an assessed department, I have extremely serious misgivings...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. I had been told that the Chinese do not queue but there was a very long and orderly queue for the taxis when I arrived outside the airport in Beijing. Today, only taxis with odd number-plates...
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Portsmouth: points from QC's report
I wish it to be known that the decision by the University of Portsmouth not to permit general publication of the full report by Jeremy Lever QC on certain matters affecting the university was not...
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We deserve prize of pay review body body
How sad to see a spokesperson for our sister union, Natfhe, line up with the chief executive of the UCEA in seeking to deny professional staff in higher education the benefits of an independent and...
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Food for thought on genetics
I would like to clarify remarks attributed to me about decision-making over genetically engineered foods (THES, October ). While I appreciate the points made in your leader about the case for a new...