Why credit is not due
AM I alone in having reservations about the ever increasing movement towards a credit-based modular system of higher education? My problems, from the point of view of a technological subject, are...
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Don's diary
Monday What time is it? Here in Chicago it is 6.30pm but, in my post-flight consciousness, it is after midnight and therefore Tuesday. Whichever, it is dark. Dimly-lit downtown looms like a manmade...
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God wins place in Poland
In a referendum on Sunday the Polish people look set to agree a new constitution, one that will, at long last, replace the model fraternally bequeathed by Stalin in 1952. The vote comes at a critical...
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Cleaner way to a brighter future
David Blunkett has been inundated with open letters but I have not seen a single mention of clerical and support staff. When staffing was mentioned it was fairly clear it meant academic and research...
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Tribal chic
(Photograph) - Tribal chic: The newsreader Trevor MacDonald, ill-fitting suits and Barbra Streisand were among the sources of inspiration for designs from Edinburgh College of Art fourth-year fashion...
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Akker takes legal advice
NATFHE chief John Akker is to take legal advice on challenging the union procedures which led to his sudden suspension amid claims of incompetence. Union insiders say that former general secretary Mr...
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Merritt inquiry urges code clarity
Clearer and "more emphatic" guidelines are required for governing bodies in higher education, the National Audit Office has said. An NAO investigation into events which led to the resignation of Neil...
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Principal quits ahead of management probe
Stan Mason, principal of Glasgow Caledonian University and Scotland's highest-paid principal, has unexpectedly given up his post just as the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has announced a...
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Rooftop protest
(Photograph) - Rooftop protest: A South Korean student, draped in the country's flag, is arrested on the roof of the Seoul headquarters of the failed Hanbo Steel Company after demanding the arrest of...
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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 an intermediate technologist who was economic adviser to the National Coal...
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The very titled deeds
The Fate of the English Country House - The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
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Savagery in the corridors of power
The Impact of Napoleon
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Colonialism on the couch
Mason & Dixon
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All drama but no crisis
Life's Splendid Drama
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Visions and soporifics
Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy - The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought