Letter: Pragmatic placement
I wish to add my reservations about the effect of constraints on student placement in the Quality Assurance Agency's proposed new code of practice ("QAA issues rules for placement", THES, August 17...
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Letter: Don't separate skills
Skills? Yes, indeed. Students need skills and, at the conclusion of their courses, they should know what skills they have acquired ("How to put first-years on the right track", THES , September 7)....
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Leader: High time for a look at control of academic life
Few things in public life are more panic-inducing than the arrival of the Whitehall investigators. But the inquiry into universities planned by the Cabinet Office's Better Regulation Task Force is an...
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The right Pill at precisely the right time
If the creation of the oral contraceptive had been delayed, it would never have made it to the market, argues its inventor Carl Djerassi. On October 15 1951, the first synthesis of a steroid oral...
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Shift needed on bright-wing politics
Gifted children are not a homogeneous group. Consequently, there is a variety of definitions of "giftedness". A review of international research I conducted for schools inspection agency Ofsted shows...
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'I have sat in rooms talking to people I knew the IRA would love to kill. The doorbell rings'
Olga Wojtas meets the academics who are trying to get to the root of terrorism. "The only time that I ever came near to being filled in was a case of mistaken identity," says Steve Bruce, head of...
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How budding genius gets to blossom
With Britain planning a centre for gifted kids, Stephen Phillips reports on US models. Joan Freeman considers research on how such schemes affect children. Princeton University first-year Stephanie...
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Star of a mushrooming field
Steve Farrar meets a man who travels the world seeking new fungi whose biochemical trickery could one day save human lives. In 1987, Gary Strobel had a life-changing clash with the establishment. At...
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Latest news
Lib Dems back student grants Liberal Democrats today called on the government to abolish student tuition fees and restore maintenance grants. The motion was passed at the party’s conference in...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Deflecting an asteroid approaching Earth could be more complex than just blowing it up, research suggests. Scientists at Hammersmith Hospital in London have found that Viagra ...
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From today's UK papers
The Times A detailed history of the earliest humans to live in Britain is to be written in a £1.2 million study that will shed new light on the origins of modern man. The Ancient Human...
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Latest UK news
V-cs back Welsh bid to re-introduce grants Welsh vice-chancellors are backing proposals for the Welsh Assembly to seek legislative powers to introduce maintenance grants and bursaries for students....
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Latest international news
Colombian politician kidnapped Consuelo Araujo, a former Colombian culture minister, was yesterday kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces leftist guerrilla group near Valledupar in the...
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US attacks: your views
Nitrous oxide... and the shadows cast by cowards Dale Lowdermilk [ Dale93150@aol.com ] Saturday 22 September 2001 04:19 BST Would a gun in the cockpit have saved 5 lives....10 lives....5,...
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Latest international news
Brazilian lecturers' strike affects 30,000 students More than 30,000 applicants for places at Brazil's federal universities have had their entrance examinations cancelled as a result of an all-out...