Herts minds in Beijing
The University of Hertfordshire, in partnership with Inti Management College of Malaysia, has become the first British university to be recognised by the Chinese authorities to award British...
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Strong China good for globe
Harvard professors Erza Vogel and William Kirby used Beijing University's centennial celebrations as a platform to urge far greater expansion of Sino-US contacts in wide-ranging areas to resolve...
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John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has been commissioned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's civil service bureau to design and organise a high-level leadership...
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Don's Diary
Monday Broken tooth: What a start to the week! During my unscheduled visit to the dentist, I mull over our current research on the curing dynamics of composite monomers as the dentist cures the...
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Scots tutors train Russian media
The first of a new wave of British-backed programmes linking Russian and British universities to encourage progress in social, political and economic reforms has been launched in the city of Saratov...
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Fees set for the shelf
Efforts to resolve the deadlock over higher education reform in Germany look likely to result in shelving any plans to introduce tuition fees over the next few years. A committee mediating over the...
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Finns reunited with a cultural icon
when the Finno/Russian border was sealed in 1920 universities in Finland suddenly lost access to one of their primary cultural resources. East of the border, lay most of Karelia, the land that had...
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Ukraine takes democracy class
A Canadian university is helping Ukraine establish its first national programme in the study of democracy. Expected to begin in the autumn, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, will set up a four...
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The Mafia spreads fear in Messina
ITALY's anti-Mafia commission is investigating the University of Messina in eastern Sicily as part of a wider probe into corruption in the city. Results of an education ministry inquiry are also...
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False premise makes for wrong policy
A LINK between quality and funding is again high on the agenda. Ministers wish it so. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has set up a committee to consider how to arrange it. But it...
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Ensure standards with a light touch
Today and yesterday, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has been holding its annual meeting. On Monday, the Quality Assurance Agency will hold a consultative conference on its proposals...
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Contracts to kill
MANY universities regard fixed-term researchers funded by "soft" money as different from other fixed-term staff whose jobs would traditionally be permanent. The Association of University Teachers'...
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Remains in a museum
NEIL Chalmers is inaccurate in claiming that the World Archaeological Congress had access to the Natural History Museum's archives on its human remains collection in 1991-92 (Letters, THES, March )....
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A sexual challenge
BOTH responses to Jennifer Davey's article about enabling women to get more firsts (THES, March 13) miss her point. Davey said that women would not be "made more equal" by fudging the criteria for...
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Dearing's channel crossing
AFTER spending six years looking at the strategic management of internationalisation within UK higher education for a part-time PhD, I first read Lord Dearing's thoughts ("Dearing goes abroad", THES...