A House beyond repair?
In the middle of July, in the dog days of the parliamentary session, Andrew Rowe, the Tory MP for Mid-Kent, stood up in the House of Commons and delivered a tirade that would not, in its rhetorical...
In the middle of July, in the dog days of the parliamentary session, Andrew Rowe, the Tory MP for Mid-Kent, stood up in the House of Commons and delivered a tirade that would not, in its rhetorical...
Government, it has been said, is boring. Local government bores absolutely. Yet local government is the only representative institution we have outside Parliament. It is through participating in...
Continuing our series on the intellectual impact of Darwinism, John Barrow argues that the reason we find such things as parks, cosy alcoves and paintings of flowers so aesthetically pleasing is...
THURSDAY. I am in Berlin for the 14th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, always called Inqua. I am a bit worried about this conference, the circulars and registration...
Economics is the classic case of the emperor without clothes. But what of the emperor's tailors - the practitioners of the dismal science? The economic rationalists of academe are the very ones who...
Recently, I was privileged to attend, on behalf of the Committee for Vice-Chancellors and Principals, a meeting in Brussels. This involved an "expert" working group of the Liaison Committee of the...
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. This exercise will involve an assessment of the quality of the research undertaken in university departments...
A statistical analysis identifies relationships but explanation needs more careful consideration. Your front page report ("Knights top pay league" THES, September 8) fails to realise this when it...
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. There appears to be a general feeling that in this research assessment exercise the powers that be have just...
Countdown to the research assessment exercise: four academics express their reservations. The Higher Education Funding Council for England's submission to the Secretary of State on the development of...
This has been a ridiculous summer. The GCSE/A level standards debate is an annual ritual but this year has seen additional hysteria over "worthless" degrees, too easy entry to higher education and...
The current debate surrounding the propriety of admitting to undergraduate courses those without A levels seems to blur an important distinction. There is a long tradition, extending to Oxbridge, of...
Maggie Woodrow (THES September 8) misses the point. Home students admitted to full-time first-degree courses at British universities have a number of privileges conferred upon them. They become...
We, the Executive of Blackburn College Natfhe Branch, would like to correct a misleading impression caused by Roger Ward (THES, September 1). Last September many FE colleges throughout the country...
The rector of Sarajevo University, Faruk Seleskevic, has made an urgent appeal to the international scientific community to warn governments against the deteriorating situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina...