Debenture stuck on the slipway
In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...
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Danger in strict codes of conduct
I was appalled by the article on campus "Don Juans" by Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs (THES, March 10). Granted there are, regrettably, occasions when students are harassed and pressured by tutors into...
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Drawing the line on classes of degree
The tragicomic scenes being played out at the University of East Anglia (THES, March 10) again confirm the need for a thorough revision of final degree assessment practice. As both university teacher...
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Freud's shelf-life
Frederick Crews in his article, "Cheerful assassin defies analysis", (THES, March 3) presents himself as a sort of St George, "a kind and gentle man" slaying the psychoanalytic dragon because of his...
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Take the high road
Jean Barr argues that the Scottish adult education review offers a chance for resistance and transformation. Liberal adult education has been a small but durable part of the profile of the "old"...
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Injustice for the probation system
Home Office proposals to remove the training of probation officers from universities, reported in The THES two weeks ago, have wider implications. They may, if implemented, threaten other forms of...
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Time for stability...
This week Sir William Stubbs sat before the Public Accounts Committee for a grilling on the financial health of his two-year-old baby, the further education sector. The chief executive of the Further...
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Fraud ends on sick note
Allegations that Greek students have faked illness, backed by forged medical certificates provided by eminent doctors, in order to transfer from universities abroad to ones at home have led to...
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Corrupt baroni meet their match
Semiologist Umberto Eco is among 77 leading Italian academics who have appealed to the country's new university minister to stamp out fixing exams in favour of powerful professors' proteges. In an...
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Party win leads to musical chairs
Higher degrees in Bulgaria are suspended temporarily because of a new law which opposition MPs say will lead to the "recommunisation of higher learning". The law repeals an Act of December 1992...
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University for senior citizens
Student Gunter Honicke became a local celebrity when he completed his MA in history at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in a near record-breaking nine semesters. The secret of his success? Age....
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Uneven results of a colonial legacy
The universities of Singapore and Malaya have gone in very different directions since their separation in 1962. It is hard to believe that the premier universities in Singapore and Malaysia share a...
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Scientist wins religious prize
An Australian-based physicist, Paul Davies, has won the Aus$1.45 million (Pounds 725,000) Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the religious equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Professor Davies, a...
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...and time for decisions
Higher education is in a different position from further education. The period of "consolidation" imposed by the Government has at least provided stability. The funding machinery is up and running....
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Bid to curb v-cs' pay deals
The high salary packages negotiated by Australian vice chancellors have alarmed the nation's academics. Now university staff want to limit any further increase to the Aus$20 million (Pounds 10...