Ill-health delays student loan report
The long-awaited report by the National Audit Office on irregularities in the Student Loans Company has been held up because auditors have been unable to quiz Ron Harrison, chief executive, due to...
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Gypsy professors roam US campuses
An "army of gypsy professors" is wandering the United States, unable to find full-time employment because higher education is too bottom-heavy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Oxbridge club mum on women
The decision by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to disassociate themselves from the United Oxford and Cambridge University Club, because of what they call its "offensive" and "discriminatory...
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NVQ vision plea for consensus
The Government call for the completion of the national vocational framework has today been answered by the publication by the Employment Department of its long-awaited strategy paper on higher level...
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`Lazy' teachers accused
German students have accused their medical professors of "teaching fraud" after an investigation at Hamburg University showed that 88 per cent do not teach the legal minimum of four hours a week. A...
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Cambridge and Scots sight new astro turf
Cambridge and Edinburgh universities could take over the Royal Observatories under proposals being considered by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Exploratory talks between the...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland
(Photograph) - John Brown, professor of astrophysics at Glasgow University, has been appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland, a post which has been vacant since the resignation of Malcolm Longair in...
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Life, art and a few blue periods
Tony Tysome finds that studying for an art MA in Barcelona isn't all sun, sangria and surrealism. It sounds like an artist's dream: nine months of soaking up the sights, sounds and culture of one of...
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The mathematician and the mystic
Andrew Robinson and Dipankar Home shed some light on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth,...
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Sum mistake?
Margaret Brown asks if there is any truth in the perception that maths standards are declining. Mathematics rarely excites the media, yet The Guardian's recent front page headline stating that school...
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She who makes holy men fume
A standard bearer for equality or a self-publicist employing fatwa as career move? Simon Targett meets the exiled Bangladeshifeminist writer Taslima Nasreen. It was a hush-hush, mum's the word sort...
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No Incas in Hastings
Jared Diamond asks why Europeans came to dominate and colonise the world and not the peoples of Africa, Australia or America? Eurasians, especially peoples of Europe and eastern Asia, have spread...
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A prize for admittance
After 1989, the year we were quick enough to call the annus mirabilis of European history, the fall of communism produced a paradox: we all became Marxists, sharing the belief that it would suffice...
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Skewed selection needs rethink
The universities' admissions system is unfair and must be changed say Chris McManus and Peter Richards. Back in 1961 the Universities' Central Council on Admissions was a brilliant idea. Instead of...
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Helpful postscript
It seems that the copyright case reported by your Hong Kong correspondent, Susie Weldon, is not going to end with the published "confidential report" by the Committee on Personnel Matters. As much as...