Letter: V-cs' unity on fees cast in doubt 1
The headline "V-cs mount campaign to keep fees" ( THES , March 1) was an accurate summary of the Universities UK submission to the government on the question of student support but a rather sweeping...
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Letter: V-cs' unity on fees cast in doubt 2
After reading the latest whinnying from Universities UK, I imagine that Treasury officials, other civil servants and politicians must find it hard not to laugh in negotiations with that august body....
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Letter: V-cs' unity on fees cast in doubt 3
The THES urged the British government to "up fees for the rich and help the poor" (Leader, THES , February 1). This is very different from upping fees for the rich to help the poor. Governments,...
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Letter: Wolves are waiting
Mike Baxter's "unbundled university" ("For a bit more security and satisfaction 'unbundle'", THES , March 1) relies on the myth that business is superior to public services and better suited to...
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Leader: US anti-cloning laws could be others' gain
The United States is turning away from stem-cell research and cloning (legislation proposing a complete ban enters the Senate next week). Thus does the warrior against intolerance elsewhere in the...
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Leader: Modest gains but a chillier wind is blowing
This week's funding allocations for universities and colleges in England are the first concrete manifestation of the new regime at the English funding council. It is a reasonably good settlement. The...
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A fight for equal love rights
Partnership rights for gay couples are basic human rights, and religious doctrines should be irrelevant when devising secular laws enshrining them, argues Robert Wintemute. At first glance, some...
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Foreign fields provide an uninspiring look into private future
Pedro Teixeira and Alberto Amaral examine the rise of private provision in education overseas. With the rapid expansion of higher education in recent decades it seemed to make sense to increase the...
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Kmart gets its hands on US national treasures
Oprah Winfrey? Martha Stewart? Stephen Phillips explains how a $38 million gift to the Smithsonian sparked a storm over donations. Businesswoman Catherine Reynolds's decision last month to back out...
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Laugh all the way to left bank
A tiny flat in Cambridge will set you back £130,000 while a Parisian pied-a-terre could be yours for £39,000 - so what are you waiting for? asks Jennifer Wallace. A square in Montmartre. Wicker cafe...
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Where Jack the Ripper gets to rub shoulders with Lord Lucan's nanny
The New DNB still has the good, the bad and the ugly, but women and crime victims are better represented than before, says Huw Richards. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, Florence Maybrick, Neville Heath,...
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Tuned in to vibes of the global tribes
Ethnomusicologists are looking to the future as much as to the past in exploring diverse musical traditions, says Michael Church. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: the fact that we know so much about...
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There's a fine art to teaching the business
It's tough getting art students excited about profit-and-loss accounts, but one day they'll thank you, says Jo Andrews. Since I gave birth for the first time 19 years ago, the mysteries of nature-...
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USE-it! to present ideas for promotion of academic entrepreneurship
Brussels, 06 March 2002 The international USE-it! conference, which aims to present new concepts for the promotion of academic entrepreneurship, will take place on 24 to 26 April in Bonn, Germany....
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Luxembourg calls for renegotiation of biotechnology inventions directive
Brussels, 06 March 2002 Luxembourg's Parliament has called on the European Commission to renegotiate Directive 98/44 on the protection of biotechnology inventions in view of 'ambiguities regarding...