Non-whites less likely to get on their bikes
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire University this week. See research papers. Britain's ethnic minorities are unwilling to commute to work and...
Search
-
-
Unesco sees merit in solar power
SOLAR POWER may not be the first thing to spring to mind when reflecting on how people can gain access to higher education. But for Unesco, the United Nations agency for education, science and...
-
Moscow centre for British skills
Links between universities in Britain and the countries of the former Soviet Union are to be boosted through a Pounds 4.5 million project over three years designed to cement key educational and...
-
Institute wins historic fight
The future of the fledgling British Centre for Historical Research in Germany has been secured following a successful campaign to save the Max Planck Institute for History in Gottingen. The unique...
-
Beirut hit by travel embargo
The postwar recovery of Beirut's oldest university is being hampered by harsh travel restrictions imposed on United States citizens. The American University of Beirut has lost much of its support and...
-
Kenyan police in murder charge
Eleven Kenyan police officers are to stand trial for the murder of two university students. Nairobi chief magistrate Pamela Kidullah said the accused officers had a case to answer for the shooting of...
-
ߣߣÊÓƵn alarm over privatisation push
ߣߣÊÓƵ's enthusiasm for free-market competition in both the private and public sectors is rapidly being extended to post-secondary education and the nation's academics and teachers are alarmed at...
-
Cryptic signals on research funding
Humanities academics love to say that life would be better if they had a research council of their own. Perhaps so: but a new report from the House of Commons science and technology committee (page 1...
-
Cashing in on learning curve
In an education system where university courses - and places at fee-paying schools - cost thousands of pounds per year, how much learning do you expect to get for Pounds 25? As we report this week (...
-
Cardinal rule for Dearing to consider
ONE EFFECT of the Dearing inquiry is that at last we are beginning to see some serious debate about the fundamental purposes of higher education and its relationship with culture, society and the...
-
After-dinner indigestibles
Half-baked, insubstantial conference papers provide poor fare for busy academics. Gavin Fairbairn wants something more to chew on Why do so many contributors at academic conferences abuse the...
-
Brains in their tales
Job prospects for humanities graduates are not extinct, says Rick Rylance. He's even got the documentary evidence to prove their existence A usually responsible broadsheet newspaper recently ran a...
-
Root of problem
Some senior academic university staff are adopting the title of doctor when not in possession of a doctorate. The General Dental Council recently reversed a rule which previously prevented dentists...
-
The new academic vampirism
There is a great deal of talk about how the formation of research centres and networks, on a regional basis, can solve the sensitive problem of allocation of research funding in British universities...
-
In good faith
"Faith in the future" (THES, March 21) provided a fascinating vignette of the religious scene in Britain. At a time of structural upheaval in our higher education system it is important that values...