Scramble for students on full fees
Universities in ߣߣÊÓƵ will be forced to recruit thousands of fee-paying students at home and overseas over the next three years to make up for funding cuts. An education department report for the...
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Universities reopen to the sound of chattering teeth
CANADIAN university students are returning to lectures after weathering the worst ice storm to hit the country in 150 years. Three weeks ago, five days of rain coupled with below-freezing...
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Red tape checks research surge
Italy's National Research Council is under attack for being top-heavy, wasteful, insufficiently productive and too centralised. A radical reform of the council, which controls research centres...
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Benefits cushion for change
THE House of Lords is considering the detail of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill to reorganise student loans and give ministers power to make universities charge students fees at a set level....
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Break down the union barriers
Six years after the creation of the new universities distinctions are blurring. They teach as well as old universities - especially if allowance is made for their bigger classes and different...
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Caveats in defence of autonomy
TWO requirements handed to the draftsmen of part two of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill were to ensure that institutions make new home and European Union undergraduate entrants pay tuition...
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Identity crisis for the new generation of teachers
Trainee teacher Toby Marshall thinks his fellow students have bought new Labour's hype on education and forgotten about developing intellectual independence In September 1996 I enrolled on a...
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The silence of the ordinances
Procedures for making appointments, particularly to chairs, are surprisingly informal, says Richard Clogg. He calls for Scandinavian-style openness The THES's campaign to introduce an element of...
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Clans cross borders
An interesting game of national and political identities emerges from "Clan mentality rules in Italian universities" (THES, January 9). This implies two European countries, obviously Italy and...
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
SUSAN Greenfield says that peer review procedures are stifling the "derring-do and innovative thinking that gave this country a reputation for truly astonishing science" (Letters, THES, January 16)....
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
IT SEEMS impossible not to endorse the various flaws in peer review of applications for research grants and academic promotions. We are admonished to go for peak-quality performance, yet power and...
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
Mantz Yorke calls for the marriage of teaching and research by establishing a separate unit of assessment in the research assessment exercise devoted to higher education (Opinion, THES, January 16)....
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Appointments
Church of Scotland. Alan Main, professor of practical theology at Christ's College in Aberdeen and former university chaplain, has been appointed moderator of the General Assembly from 1998....
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Parodies of life and art
IN HIS review of Ernest May and Philip Zelikow's The Kennedy Tapes (THES, January 16), Alex Danchev is wrong to suggest that Curtis E. LeMay was the model for General Jack D. Ripper (in Dr...
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True tales of Cyprus
THE admirable rise of higher education in the illegally-occupied Turkish zone of northern Cyprus (THES, January 9) may have more to do with the concerted campaign by certain sectors of the Turkish...