Competition and the council
It is premature and somewhat optimistic to imply that the Joint Action Plan signed by Prime Minister John Major and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo could result in $265 million of World Bank money...
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Competition and the council
The article, "Mexico signs training deal", describing the British Council's successful sale of National Council of Vocational Qualifications' material there and elsewhere (THES, February 2), made...
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Competition and the council
Roger Bowers, director of professional services at the British Council, (Letters, THES, February 2) asserts that Roger Iredale "is unduly influenced by . . . his interests as a member of the board of...
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A mouse that took fright
Cambridge University Press's statement ("A publishing mouse?" THES, February 9) that I sought police protection for Anastasia Karakasidou and myself can only be disingenuous. As a responsible...
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Standards speak wrong language
Your editorial "Wisdom in languages" (THES, February 9), following up Jim Coleman's call for nationally agreed standards for languages, was at once both encouraging and depressing. It was encouraging...
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Food for the mind
It was a delight to read Kay-Tee Khaw's timely warning about unhealthy dietary habits ("Dying for a good fry-up", THES, February 9) as I tucked into the "full English breakfast" in our staff club at...
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Single is best in this affair
The Association of University Teachers today publishes its proposals for joint membership with the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education. It wants "open discussion at the...
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Study the question
Whenever Gladstone was getting close to the answer, the Irish would change the Question." Like all great humourists, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman based their satire on a foundation of reality....
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Lawyer rules aptitude tests out of court
Last year the Law Society president set up a working party to look at options for restricting entry to the legal profession. At present only half the number of students who complete the Legal...
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Graduate wastage reaches crisis point
Italy. Late last year, while Italy's front pages were devoted to the daily twists of the ongoing political chaos, a relatively unnoticed survey revealed the equally profound crisis facing the country...
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Old German jewel in new turmoil
Stone book in stone hand, William von Humboldt stares out at Berlin's traffic from the university he founded more than 180 years ago as a universitas litterarum striving to give a humanist education...
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Cuts confrontation
Canada. Cuts confrontation: students angered by spending cuts smashed windows and stormed the Ontario legislature building in Toronto after breaking through a phalanx of police.
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All's well that ends Will in Aston
Fresh doubt about the sole authorship of a Shakespearean play has been cast by two scientists from Aston University, Birmingham. Using pioneering computing techniques, Professor David Lowe and Robert...
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Disharmony over music assessment
Higher education quality chiefs have come under fire over their handling of complaints about the allegedly "unprofessional" and "confrontational" style of funding council assessors. Royal Holloway...
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Nick knack
All of which leads on nicely to alumnus to be proud of No. 31: Sir Nicholas Lyell, a member of Pratt's Club, and Attorney-General, whose actions in the discharge of that post have provided Sir...