The THES Diary
Slow on the march They don't make Scottish students like they used to. Forty-five this week marched from Glasgow to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in a tuition fees and grants protest. They...
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Eye witness
Psycho-linguistic expert Valery Belyanin has spent the past three years developing a sophisticated computer program that allows the user to delve behind the surface meaning of texts to discover the...
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World watch
Some 759 Macao middle-school students have taken entrance exams for places at 71 universities and higher education colleges on the Chinese mainland.
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Faculty watches bottom line
A small college near Boston has turned into a national model for a new way of setting faculty salaries in the United States: profit- sharing. A salary formula for faculty at Wheaton College, hammered...
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Readers' reactions
Recently in The THES... Is this art? we asked about The Degree Show, an installation by 14 Leeds students that essentially comprised work by long-established artists David Rodway Lecturer in art and...
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Life stirring on the campus
Among an apparently feckless US student population, Harvey J. Kaye sees signs of a social consience One of television's most popular new series, Felicity, presents the trials and tribulations of a...
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World watch
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities will have to forge stronger links with industry and research money allocation will alter radically if the federal government's green paper on research, New Knowledge, New...
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World watch
Lyons University has launched an appeal to rebuild its library after three-quarters of its books, manuscripts and journals were destroyed. A fire on the night of June 11-12 burnt an estimated 350,000...
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World watch
The official number of Italian universities being pursued by the European Commission concerning the long-running case of job discrimination against foreign-language lecturers has dropped from nine to...
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World watch
About 70,000 - about 25 per cent - of German students drop out each year before taking exams, according to figures from the Higher Education Information System. One in five said they gave up because...
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Threat to maple syrup industry
The maple tree, Canada's national symbol and an important economic commodity, is threatened by climate change, according to an academic from the heart of maple country. Robert van Hulst, an ecologist...
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Cambridge goes offshore in criminal pursuit
The University of Cambridge plans to establish its first offshore campus in Melbourne next year, in collaboration with the Victoria University of Technology. The plans would involve Cambridge's board...
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New broom sweeps out old order
University and technikon leaders regard Kader Asmal, South Africa's new education minister, as one of very few people capable of shaking up the unwieldy post-apartheid education system. Within 24...
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Cash for students key to success of welcome reforms
Admiral House 66-68 East Smithfield London E1 9XY Fax 0171 782 3300 Tel 0171 782 3000 Email editor@thes.co.uk The tangled mess that is post-16 education and training has been crying out for...
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Stand by external advice or peer review will fade
Unless the role of the external examiners is established on a consistent basis, they will be frustrated in efforts to ensure uniform standards, argues Gordon Pearson Another season of exam boards...