Internet draft law threatens colleges
Universities could be sued for defamatory comments that their employees have put on the internet, is one of the implications of a draft Bill just published by the Lord Chancellor's department. The...
Universities could be sued for defamatory comments that their employees have put on the internet, is one of the implications of a draft Bill just published by the Lord Chancellor's department. The...
An independent commission set up by Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has backed the idea of individual learning accounts as the best way of achieving a learning society. Headed by Lord...
The threat of compulsory redundancies at the University of Derby has resulted in a warning from lecturers' union Natfhe that it will take legal action to protect its members there. The union claims...
Postgraduates with British Academy funding are being told to complete their research within four years, in common with deadlines being set by the research councils. The academy's Humanities Research...
Sex stereotypes persist in the choice of courses by male and female students, the first comprehensive survey of the United Kingdom's expanded university sector reveals. Just 15 per cent of...
(Photograph) - Driving ambition:Douglas Shortridge achieved a lifetime's ambition recently when he was driven in a red Ferrari from his home in Leeds to the University of York to receive his honorary...
The visitor's decision was that the candidate had simply failed to make the grade. On June 30 1995 Mr Justice McPherson, sitting as a visitor to the Inns of Court, dismissed Cecilia Hulse's appeal....
The page in The THES allotted to research is, I am sure, generally appreciated by readers. However, I must object to the form of presentation of the article on "skin" (July 7) which was...
Huw Richards suggests (THES, July 21) that the proposed new sports scholarships should be given a new name. Why not Bannister scholarships, after one of Britain's greatest sportsman who showed how it...
Following man's early footsteps", indeed (THES, July 21). I am resigned to archaeologists describing the whole of early humanity as "man", but doesn't The THES have guidelines of gender-neutral...
David Charter's article on staff governors like the beginnings of an archaeological dig, unearths issues of much deeper significance. Should the governance model of universities and colleges be based...
James Tooley's proposal that children should be issued with an IQ certificate deserves more serious thought than that given to it by Richard Pring. The proposal has considerable merit, but is capable...
May I insert one or two conceptual points into the debate on intelligence testing (THES, July 7, 14 ) before it takes off again on predictable lines? Establishing what is intelligence is a conceptual...
Alan Irwin's welcome article on Citizen Service (THES, July 21) promotes the virtues of students using their degree-level knowledge for the benefit of the under-resourced local community. From the...
There are a good many serious threats to academic freedom in this country, but the tyranny of "theory" is not one of them. If "theory" is about anything it is about opening up spaces for those who...