Ashrawi outlines peace agenda
Palestinian academics stayed off the streets while the bloody battles raged between Palestinian police, civilians and Israeli soldiers in West Bank towns last week. Instead, they searched for a...
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One per cent tax would pay for all
The funding of higher education is firmly back on the agenda. This time it includes the issue of full-time students contributing to their tuition fees. The outcry has been enormous. There is a very...
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Tale of the abnormal
In "Colleges face rebel swell" (THES, September ) Graeme Hill is quoted as saying that "because of the Care in the Community Act, people are presenting themselves at the college who may not display...
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Britons relax with a bedtime vision
Nearly half of Britons regularly hallucinate, according to a study by Robert Priest, emeritus professor in psychiatry at the University of London. In a survey of 5,000 people, Professor Priest found...
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Cern eyes loan
Cern, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, is thinking of taking out a loan to ensure completion of its key particle-smashing project, the Large Hadron Collider. The need for the money -...
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Cash backer
Alarming news for those who thought the greatest peril lying in wait for the election forecaster was a certain amount of derision when you got it wrong. Helmut Norpoth of the State University of New...
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From polioboy to professor
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. In 1953, a child psychologist was called to a Government rehabilitation...
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Healthy attitude for Lancaster
The concept of healthy body, healthy mind took a step forward last week with the formal launch of a scheme to turn Lancaster University into a healthy and environmentally-pleasing campus. The Health...
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Academics lose freedom fight
The Slovak parliament has passed a controversial amendment to the law on higher education, which considerably increases the powers of the education ministry over the universities. The move brings to...
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Ta-ta to tutorials
Although biased towards the value of tutorials in higher education, as a non-lawyer I found myself quite unconvinced by the defence of them offered by Richard Mullender (Personal View, THES,...
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Academic animal feed
Should university professors participate in "performance-based" incentive schemes and bonus programmes? The question is widely asked wherever universities are being called on by their governments to...
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Warnock's failing
Baroness Warnock (THES, September 20) refers to the "dismal record" of comprehensive schools. There is not a comprehensive in the country that does not send pupils to university. Was there a...
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Dearing teams up
A team from the Institute of Education, London, will examine more than 1,500 replies to a questionnaire from the Dearing inquiry into higher education. Led by Ronald Barnett, dean of professional...
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Health experts attack Blair's NHS remarks
Health economists are urging the Labour party to come clean on its plans for a revamped NHS, after Tony Blair announced earlier this week that a Labour government would reverse the internal market in...
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Why wait?
Rumour has it that Queuing Societies have been formed at some universities, with the sole purpose of forming queues that do not actually have any purpose. The devious members start queues and then...