Salaries of college presidents at public colleges and universities are publicly available in the United States, but private institutions can get away with being more secretive. That may change,...
Scientists carrying out research into what goes on behind our taste buds will soon have their very own "European Centre for Taste and Ingestion", in France's gastronomic heartland of Burgundy. The...
An open letter to Anthea Millett, the first chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency. Dear Anthea -- May I offer you a warm welcome to a seat that will be either hot or pleasant depending...
Students at one of Ireland's smallest colleges, Letter-kenny College, Donegal, have discovered the complex side effects of changing their drinking venue. The decision to transfer student discos and...
Is Britain's liberal and secular academic tradition coming under fire? It would appear so. Last week, there were stories that an Islamic fundamentalist party, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, had been stirring up...
Students took to the streets of London on Wednesday. In doing so they ignored the example set them by the Union of Communications Workers. The UCW, making use of its nationwide network, has just run...
In the "Students knock elite grouping" article (THES, October 21) I was quoted as saying that the LSE students' union has passed a motion opposing the development of an Ivy League of universities....
The French hardly need to worry about the "threat posed to French language and French culture by the Anglo-Saxon menace" noted in your caption (THES, October 28): the Anglo-Saxons have not been...
Those who thought that Christina Townsend would be a new broom will be disappointed to discover (THES, November 4) that she does not intend to sweep clean but only to spread more whitewash. We have...
Charles Clark (THES, October 28) has a naive view about how the church colleges interpret their task. To examine value questions from a position of commitment does not imply "the dissemination of...
Shortly before my undergraduate finals, I asked an eminent American social scientist, who had come to give a guest seminar, how he had first become interested in his field. I have forgotten his full...
Jane Seaton's piece on Marshall McLuhan ("Speaking Volumes", November 4) struck some 1960s chords. McLuhan did write some wonderful dotty things - including the aphoristic exposition of his "dot"...
Some of the comments attributed to Michael McCarthy ("The last island takes road to Rome", THES, October 14) make curious reading for Irish art historians. Particularly bizarre is the notion that,...
Contrary to your report (THES, November 4), the European Commission has approved Alfa, the academic training programme linking Europe and Latin America, with a budget of ECU40 million (32 million...
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded a fellowship to John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Bradford.