Save law from universities' noose
The Lord Chancellor's report marginalises the influence of the legal profession, says Nigel Savage The first report of the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on legal education and training is a...
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Scholars rebuff partisan attack
Shula Marks's review of our Launching Democracy in South Africa: The First Open Election, April 1994 (THES, March 22) contains an all-out attack on our scholarly objectivity mainly, it would seem,...
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Market forces set an ugly agenda
On Monday April 29, nearly two years of national negotiations between the employers of adult education teachers - local authorities - and the university and college lecturers union, Natfhe, came to a...
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Crosses to bear in Malta
About 460 universities in Commonwealth countries belong to the Association of Commonwealth Universities and about 350 vice chancellors gathered at their meeting this year in Malta. A collection of so...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Last week at work before our departure to San Francisco to give a paper at "Picturing Justice: Images of Law and Lawyers in the Visual Media" is taken up with a mixture of teaching first-...
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Creative ideas on how to budget
Working under increasingly severe pressure, staff and students ensured at least until this session that the great majority of universities remained in financial surplus. Now, however, relative...
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A-carrying on considerable
Six years after its discovery, the original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn is about to appear in Britain. But does the much-hyped book tell scholars anything new about Mark Twain and his attitudes to...
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Between ape and angel
Sanjida O'Connell believes that if manners maketh man, then chimpanzees, who have a moral code, should be considered human scientists have been arguing that gorillas and chimpanzees are so close to...
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IQ: the narrow gauged failed way
There are those who believe that intelligence can be measured and that those measurements can be used to explain the disparities in achievement between classes and ethnic groups. They are indulging...
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Nobel art of self defence
Boston University is defending charges of sexual harassment against its Nobel laureate. Tim Cornwell reports Boston University's decision to stand squarely by poet and professor Derek Walcott may be...
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From cradle to grave mistake
David Marsland thinks the welfare state is a bullying fraud that enfeebles the poor, squanders the public purse and robs us of our freedom Throughout the second half of this century the state has...
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The woman before the cross
Sarah Coakley tells Elaine Williams why, as a feminist theologian, she believes in vulnerability before God and an eroticised notion of prayer My feminism, I think, was born on my knees." Sarah...
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Election spending promises broken
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government has admitted that it intends to break a pre-election commitment to the nation's universities and slash spending on higher education. More than two months after the...
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University League Tables 1996
Entry Requirements average points: Cambridge 28 Oxford 26 LSE 24 Bath 22 Imperial 22 Birmingham 21 Bristol 21 Nottingham 21 Sheffield 21 St. Andrews 21 Sussex 21 Warwick 21 York 21 Aston 20, Durham...
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Bolton to bolt ahead on status
Bolton Institute, the unlucky loser in John Patten's 1994 moratorium on university status, has been offered a fast track to upgrading. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...