Wake up to library, v-cs told
LIBRARIES need a Pounds 770 million investment before they will be ready for the lifelong learning revolution, says a Department for Culture, Media and Sport report out this week. It calls for the...
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Scotland looks at defence
WHEN the Scottish devolution bill is published later this year it will exclude foreign affairs and defence. These will remain in the hands of Westminster as United Kingdom concerns. But what if...
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Is there a dissenter in the House?
As Labour ploughs on with higher education reform, Huw Richards scans the horizon for political opponents "We haven't lost a vote at conference for three years now - but what's more important is that...
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Scientist jailed for Web porn
A SCIENTIST at a leading Glasgow research institute has been jailed for three months after being found guilty of accessing child pornography on the Internet. George Reid, a research scientist at the...
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Training coup bid
THE GENERAL Teaching Council will today make a bid to control the training of university academics in a move which is already meeting widespread resistance in higher education, writes Alison Utley....
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Italy targets lazy professori
ITALIAN professori are for the first time facing the sack for absenteeism and low productivity. The dismissal of 30 doctors teaching at Milan University's medical school has been demanded by the head...
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Charity eschews tobacco cash
CAMBRIDGE University, which was last year condemned by students for accepting Pounds 1.5 million from British American Tobacco for a chair in international relations, has welcomed an initiative by a...
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Last chance for autonomy?
Dearing on FE franchising: committee has right idea It was recognised universally that the most important recommendations of the Dearing report would be on funding but many commentators felt its...
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Making history
The most important message from Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (THES, October 10) is that of the responsibility we academics owe to our students. It is essential that we openly recognise that different...
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The answer for Oxbridge
Andrew Adonis's diagnosis (THES, October 10) of the influence of Oxbridge is sound but does not go far enough. No other country has two universities which are so uniquely different from the rest of...
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Shape for knowledge
MARTHA Nussbaum provides a welcome challenge to the vocational trend in higher education (THES, October 3). However, if what she recommends can be summed up as liberal education for citizenship, we...
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Learning accounts
AN article on individual learning accounts (THES, October 10), implied that I was hostile to the concept and in particular that I had commented that the Bamford Taggs proposals were ill thought out....
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A giant of SciFi
Andrew Robinson's feature on Arthur C. Clarke (THES, October 10) is thorough and detailed, but I cannot help feeling that many recent commentators on Clarke are not articulating what makes him such a...
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Questions of crime
SEAN McConville (THES, October 10) raises some interesting questions about the nature of funding for criminological research but he over-simplifies the issues. First, the article fails to deal with...
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Eastern promise
We professors of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, wish to reassure Professor Carsten and his co-signatories (THES, October 3) that we have no intention of...