Union suffers battel losses
Students at Pembroke College in Oxford have called off their rent strike and disaffiliated from the National Union of Students, in a bitter culmination of their attempts to fight an increase in...
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College raises security alarm
Despite spending Pounds 250,000 on improved security measures in the past six months, Manchester College of Arts and Technology was forced to resort to the High Court last week to remove two "...
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Greeks prepare for private universities
The Greek government is planning constitutional reform to pave the way for the establishment of private universities. George Papandreou, the secretary of state for education, announced at a press...
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Lords attack assessment overlap for medicine
A House of Lords committee has condemned the decision to subject clinical medicine departments to two separate research assessment exercises: the new National Health Service assessment of major...
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First lessons in mind reading
Autistic children seem to be largely unaware of other peoples' mental states - and the task for educators is to develop learning programmes better suited to their desperate needs, suggests Simon...
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The deception of Snow White
(Photograph) - This single frame captures the essential plot that a normal four-year-old child can understand. Snow White does not know that the old lady is really her wicked stepmother in disguise,...
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United appeal for a no zone
UN peacekeepers may be simply delaying the inevitable but they could do much more with the right support from senior planners, James Smith believes. Last September, I interviewed Canadian...
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Answers in the affirmative
Lucy Hodges tackles Stanford provost and ex-presidential assistant Condoleezza Rice on power and political correctness and finds her unfazed by both. In the early 1990s Time magazine pinpointed a...
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Never-ending party
Zhores Medvedev looks at the problems facing Boris Yeltsin if he is to unite the ruling party before the crucial Duma elections in December. President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor...
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A life worth writing
Andrew Robinson argues the case for the 'service industry' of literary biography. Why does one want to know about a man's life?" asked Alfred Tennyson. "The less you know about a man's life the...
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Big shout for research
Research has traditionally existed as a part of our culture, with scientific breakthroughs occurring in a more or less haphazard way. Small, self-governing groups have been responsible for major...
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More than a tragic storm in a teacup
At the end of May, an intelligent Harvard student stabbed her room-mate 45 times before killing herself. She made international news. It was a perfect tragedy of high energies and ambitions...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. I have sat on the Memorial Bench in the Percy Thrower garden but nothing can compare with the cultural achievement of appearing on Blue Peter. I had hoped to demonstrate my dynamite tank made...
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Rise of the managerial cadre
Robert Welch argues that devolving administrative tasks to academics may be efficient but is damaging to the original purpose of universities. On the upper storey of the cloister of the Collegium...
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A measure of success
In the week the new science adviser is appointed, Mark Richmond considers the impact of the Office of Science and Technology. Many, including senior officials in the then Department of Education and...