Labour paves way for community college bonanza
Education secretary David Blunkett's major policy speech on higher education was deliberately given at Greenwich University, once Woolwich Polytechnic, where in 1965 Anthony Crosland famously slammed...
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Why our research ties need no longer bind us
Universities must improve research partnerships. Huntington Williams believes the internet holds the key The university is divided between traditional teaching and its research mission. As a teaching...
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Diploma in disguise
This week, education secretary David Blunkett announced a new qualification, the two-year foundation degree, to start in 2001. The degrees, which will be in job-related subjects such as computing and...
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Prejudice under another name
Academics manipulate research on the family to confirm their own prejudices, argues Frank Furedi Politicians and all-purpose busy-bodies find it impossible to avoid the temptation to hold forth on...
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Higher channels
John Davies beats a path through the schedules jungle (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Should western students and tourists keep out of the Amazon basin? This week's offering in C4's To the...
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When heritage becomes history
Can academics help save the historical monuments being targeted in ethnic conflicts? Steve Farrar reports The fall of the delicate limestone structure that arched over the river Neretva in Mostar was...
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The China syndrome
Western university links with China are growing. But the imprisonment of US academic Song Yongyi has set alarm bells ringing. Tim Cornwell reports Kill a rooster to scare a monkey" was the Chinese...
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Keeping good relations
In 1998-99 more than 4,000 Chinese students were in the United Kingdom, and the numbers are growing. It is hard to find anyone with a bad word to say about the new mood of cooperation. Colin Bates,...
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The lives and loves of the ubiquitous Gore Vidal
As biographer to Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan not only found himself conversing with giants of film and literature, but also in a legal spat with Vidal himself. Jennifer Wallace reports Fred Kaplan seems...
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Bricks and mortar of the 21st century
Materials science promises future health and wealth. But in the fourth part of a series on the state of degree subjects, Colin Humphreys warns that without more cash and courses, Britain will be...
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Confidence boost
(Photograph) - Confidence boost: despite 'exercising satisfactory stewardship over academic quality and standards', Liverpool University must make improvements in 14 areas before full confidence can...
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Cain and able
The evidence Judith Mitchell adduces for her new Cain theo- ry ("Brother Cain, sister Jane", THES, February 4) demonstrates little more than that psychoanalysts can always find "corroborations" for...
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Quest for equality
A new review may give poorer Northern Irish students more cash, says minister Sean Farren It has been a hugely eventful week in Northern Ireland and the political situation has again made headlines...
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UK considers national gene database
Government, scientists and industrialists are discussing the creation of a national genetic database for the United Kingdom. Experts, including George Poste, who last month retired as chief science...
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HE prepares for sub-degree qualifications
Higher education faces major change as it prepares for a new tier of sub-degree qualifications. Education secretary David Blunkett is due to announce details of the government's proposals for two-...