Post-Soviet mafia exposed
THE RISE of the mafia in the former Soviet Union is the subject of research by a small band of political scientists who see crime and corruption as a threat to emerging democracy in eastern Europe....
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Palermo muddied by crime
The ITALIAN anti-Mafia commission, which is already investigating Messina University, Sicily (see left), is requesting an official inquiry into Palermo University following student complaints. One...
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Death fuels Nigerian discontent
DIPLOMATIC sources in Lagos believe that the coming weeks might see a confrontation between Nigeria's long-suffering university community and the military in the wake of the sudden death of head of...
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Trouble booking authors beyond the grave
GATHERING together a contracted author's works following his or her death has become an occupational hazard for academic publishers and editors. When Donald Ellegood of the University of Washington...
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V-cs make fees an election issue
ߣߣÊÓƵn vice-chancellors have endorsed tuition fees as a means of raising cash for higher education. It is the first time the ߣߣÊÓƵn Vice-Chancellors' Committee has accepted the principle that...
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Student loan repayments feed federal cuts in public spending
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government is using millions of dollars of income generated by the Higher Education Contribution Scheme to reduce its own spending on universities. With more than Aus$500 million (...
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Beckett's gain Blunkett's loss?
Tension is rising as the comprehensive spending review nears its conclusion. Gordon Brown's statement last week held both threat and promise for higher education. On pay, restraint on public sector...
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The rules for a biotech revolution
Information technology and biotechnology are transforming the world around us. The information technology revolution has created new types of organisation, new patterns of work and new ways for...
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Out of the shadows in Ulster
WEIGHTY matters on the higher education agenda will be affected by the outcome of elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly next Thursday for which the politicians are busy preparing. On the...
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Let history judge how to set its standards
Anthony Fletcher describes how historians are benchmarking their subject for the new quality assurance watchdog THE CREATION of subject benchmarking information is the centrepiece of the Quality...
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Darwin's real legacy
IN criticising Peter Singer, Richard Bond (THES, May 29) sets up a straw man. Singer's argument was that, while we should not commit the naturalistic fallacy of arguing from "is" to "ought", we are...
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Females as bosses
AS A mere administrator I have perhaps been unable to grasp the intellectual depth of Celia Kitzinger's article (THES, June 12). It does seem, however, that the strains highlighted in the female-to-...
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Logical and fair charges
LEE HARVEY mistakenly uses Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conferences to demonstrate the ever-rising costs of one-day conferences (THES, June 5). But the Pounds 282 (Pounds 240 plus VAT...
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Study Asia from below
WANG Gungwu (THES, June 5) makes an interesting analysis of the reasons why in the field of Asian studies the North-South link has flourished much more than the South-South link. However, Professor...
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Why quality is strained
Proponents of quality initiatives, such as John Randall (THES, June 12), are not engaged in "questioning received wisdom" nor are they heroic warriors against the elitism of "unaccountable...