German taboo breaks on fees
Student fees are back on the political agenda in Germany -- this time with more support than ever. University rectors from the states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria prompted the debate last week by...
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`Brokers' pocket poll winnings
After poll day came pay day for university "brokers" at German universities who speculated on the result of the country's general election on a stock exchange for voters. In the months running up to...
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Italian anarchists clash with right
A symposium on Louis Ferdinand Celine, the French author, at Turin University sparked hours of violent clashes between groups of students of the extreme left and extreme right. Police in full riot...
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Mossad link in Danish bugging saga
Lars Erik Allin, a senior administrator at the University of Copenhagen has admitted to having invented a story about the 1986 bugging of Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, ombudsman of the Danish Parliament....
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Beveridge retreaded
Last week in Prague, at a meeting organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, experts from the World Bank and the London c states to policy makers from 15 central and eastern...
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Access, equity and diversity
Stringent fiscal retrenchment allied with expanded numbers of students have directed unprecedented attention to quality issues in higher education. Without doubt the single most important determinant...
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Research adds spice to university menu
Two weeks ago (THES, October 14), we had a vice chancellor of a new university telling us that universities were about teaching and learning. Full stop. Last week, a pro vice chancellor asserts that...
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Living language, breathing culture
Robert Jeffcoate's article (Back-to-grammar-school, THES, September 30) is an extremely unhelpful contribution to the ongoing debate about the teaching of English. Most of it is a very tedious list...
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Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap
Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...
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Astronomical figures
It costs the United Kingdom about Pounds 90 million a year to belong to the European Space Agency and to Cern, the European particle physics laboratory. The exact cost is uncertain because it depends...
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A bogus thing of scraps and smears
Last Friday morning, a Business and Technology Education Council quality audit team called on a further education college -- a normal institution in which thousands of students follow courses and...
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Benign dictators need academics
I have read John Rear's well-crafted apology for the new university managements (THES, October 21). It is a fine piece of rhetoric. I also attended Friday's meeting of the Council for Academic...
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Benign dictators need academics
Thank you for your leader "University Democracy" (THES, October 21), referring to the colloquium held that day by the Council for Academic Autonomy. The purpose of the council is to ensure that there...
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Whither National Audit Office neutrality?
Recent events at the University of Huddersfield prompt questions about the independence of the National Audit Office, which earlier this week presented its interim report on the Huddersfield affair...
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We are not amused
Your article "Lecturers' hours deal for Natfhe" (THES, October 14) describes Roger Ward, Colleges Employers Forum's chief executive, as "very amused" by this college's collective agreement on...