Warwick: a correction
Diana Warwick did not sit at the hearing of the case of Hashmukhary Bhatt at the employment appeals tribunal ("Warwick embroiled in contracts rumpus", THES, January 16). Unfortunately, due to an...
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Yiddish's strengths
"An Oksforder's Blues" referred to the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (THES, January 16) yet we were surprised that no one contacted us for information. Jim Reed and Dov-Ber Kerler are both...
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The new face of recession
NO FINANCE minister can ever talk publicly of "the next recession". To do so is, at best, to admit that the government's policies cannot prevent it and, at worst, to invite the opposition to accuse...
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Tough reforms for Germany
GERMAN students went on strike in many cities last autumn. Unlike student strikers of more "revolutionary" times, they were not demanding fundamental changes in society, but simply reform of higher...
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Chairs
University of Stirling. Robbie Taylor, chairman of Robert Taylor Holdings Ltd and of the Investors in People Scotland, board member of the Forth Valley Education Business Partnership and director of...
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Grants
University of Liverpool. continued. Professor S. Williams, Pounds 87,163 from the Natural Environment Research Council (characterisation of typical lake water bacteria); Professor D. Black and Drs M...
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Honorary degrees
South Bank University DLitt: Melvyn Bragg, presenter and editor of the South Bank Show, controller of arts, London Weekend Television and author; Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of...
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Mo info
(Photograph) - Mo info: Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, opened the University of Teesside's Pounds 11 million Learning Resource Centre in her Redcar constituency last week. The...
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Danes in dumb dames row
A leading Danish historian has been officially endorsed as an external examiner at the country's top universities despite a storm over his view that women have become too dominant in higher education...
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DFEE's outline for UK's role in Europe
HIGHER education officials have echoed Tony Blair's call for a more positive approach to Europe during Britain's presidency of the European Union. As the prime minister set out his agenda for the...
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Four-step plan to accredit lecturers
Lecturers seeking professional teaching status in higher education should be tested against a national statement of required abilities, a key planning group has proposed, writes Tony Tysome....
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the work of an economist familiar with a trinity of continents: "Starvation...
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Speaking Volumes: Twain, Kingsley, Dickens et al
Ruth Itzhaki on Twain, Kingsley, Dickens et al. I still have my childhood bookcase. It is plain but has glass doors, when I open them I can smell the sweet, musty smell of old books. I remember long...
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A truly celestial man
Edmond Haley
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A glimpse of the big picture
The Hermitage