Why one academic went Dutch
Radical reform is imminent for Dutch higher education. Jon Henley weighs up the pros and cons and talks to Roderick Lyall, who has just taken up a chair of English literature at Amsterdam's Free...
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Backwoods Canadian at Open University
When Sir John Daniel applied for the post of vice chancellor of the Open University in 1990 he was not an obvious choice. Although he had taught at the OU in the summer of 1972, he did not expect the...
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Black scholarships furore
A court ruling striking down a scholarship programme for black students at the University of Maryland is sending shock waves through higher education in the United States. The Benjamin Banneker...
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Christians go to court
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the University of Virginia denying funds to a Christian magazine run by students. The case will be watched closely as it will show how the Court...
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Private colleges pay fines rather than reveal presidents' salaries
Salaries of college presidents at public colleges and universities are publicly available in the United States, but private institutions can get away with being more secretive. That may change,...
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French show an appetite for matters of taste
Scientists carrying out research into what goes on behind our taste buds will soon have their very own "European Centre for Taste and Ingestion", in France's gastronomic heartland of Burgundy. The...
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Where no one has gone before
An open letter to Anthea Millett, the first chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency. Dear Anthea -- May I offer you a warm welcome to a seat that will be either hot or pleasant depending...
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Sparks fly at Golden Grill
Students at one of Ireland's smallest colleges, Letter-kenny College, Donegal, have discovered the complex side effects of changing their drinking venue. The decision to transfer student discos and...
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Limits of tolerance
Is Britain's liberal and secular academic tradition coming under fire? It would appear so. Last week, there were stories that an Islamic fundamentalist party, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, had been stirring up...
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The greatest deterrent
Students took to the streets of London on Wednesday. In doing so they ignored the example set them by the Union of Communications Workers. The UCW, making use of its nationwide network, has just run...
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Safeguards in superleague
In the "Students knock elite grouping" article (THES, October 21) I was quoted as saying that the LSE students' union has passed a motion opposing the development of an Ivy League of universities....
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Gallic twist in Anglo Saxon tale
The French hardly need to worry about the "threat posed to French language and French culture by the Anglo-Saxon menace" noted in your caption (THES, October 28): the Anglo-Saxons have not been...
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Lecturers loathe to report on GNVQs
Those who thought that Christina Townsend would be a new broom will be disappointed to discover (THES, November 4) that she does not intend to sweep clean but only to spread more whitewash. We have...
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A thinking church
Charles Clark (THES, October 28) has a naive view about how the church colleges interpret their task. To examine value questions from a position of commitment does not imply "the dissemination of...
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Doctorates in trouble
Shortly before my undergraduate finals, I asked an eminent American social scientist, who had come to give a guest seminar, how he had first become interested in his field. I have forgotten his full...