Poisoned ink
Zhores Medvedev reports on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the bulk of Stalin's personal archive. This year academics in both East and West have been able to take advantage of several...
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Final frontiers
Science has obscured the once clear line between life and death and it is time our ethics developed in response, argues Peter Singer. After ruling our thoughts and our decisions about life and death...
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A fine old mess we've got into
The clearing season is moving into full swing. A-level results are out, people are looking for places. Institutions have geared themselves up for clearing - additional phone lines are staffed;...
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Don's Diary
Monday. At Mariry. At 4.30 am the cockerels go off. By six the grey light grows through heavy mist. Twittering finches in the secondary growth nearby, an Amazonian thrush singing further back in the...
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System due for change
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
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Amazement at pseudo avenues for advancements
Opinion (THES, August 4) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, identifies particular "avenues for advancement", the development of new concepts and capabilities, fusion of...
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Swerve theory for herds
Re academic freedom (THES, July 21, 28, August 11): in evaluating a work of social or political theory one may choose to examine its coherence or, alternatively, its "relevance". British academics...
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Trauma of the 3am bid for a university place
There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...
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It's a conspiracy of sniggers
I see you have decided once again to entertain readers with the "amusing" exam howlers certain academics seem to regard it as their duty to collect. However, given that many errors are due to the...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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Hath not a drama teacher eyes?
Peter Cox argues (THES, August 11) "the pursuit of educational drama . . . by enthusiasts has been largely responsible for drama being excluded from the National Curriculum as a subject in its own...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...
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Hostage to a silent revolution
There is a silent revolution going on in the research councils, receiving too little comment from academia though it threatens to undermine research objectivity, thus potentially siphoning research...
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Italians spurn HE
University enrolment in Italy has fallen for the first time since the second world war. In 1994/95, 5.2 per cent fewer students enrolled than in 1993/94, writes Paul Bompard. The Central Statistics...
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Poles' vaulting ambition
Student numbers in Polish higher education seem set to continue to rise even though, in defiance of government policy, the state universities have recruited 5,000 fewer full-time students than last...