Racist murder shocks Czechs
A Sudanese economics student stabbed to death by a skinhead in Brno on November 8 could become the founding sacrifice of a campaign to stem the tide of racism in the Czech Republic. So wrote...
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French tackle reform of the bac
Paris. FRANCE is preparing to reform state secondary education in order to improve students' chances of coping with university and reduce drop-out rates, which are among the highest in the developed...
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Teachers take Ozcars
Melbourne. THE ߣߣÊÓƵn government last week awarded what it claims is the world's richest prize to ten academics for the quality of their teaching. In the first ceremony of its kind to be held in...
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ANC balances books and race
Durban. SOUTH AFRICAN universities are bracing themselves for another round of tight government funding in the new year. The size of the financial pie may be the same as this year's, but universities...
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China to train managers in Britain
China is to send more students to British universities for training as part of efforts to foster science and technology development and management reforms in the country's state-owned enterprises....
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Moves to revive Mediterranean campus links
Barcelona. Medcampus, the European Union programme for linking universities around the Mediterranean, is set to start up again after a break of two years. The move was announced at the European...
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Lab on the ocean wave
Las Palmas. The Canaries are an almost perfect laboratory for oceanography - "like having a ship in the middle of the ocean", says Santiago Hernandez, assistant dean of the University of Las Palmas...
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Five-star hotel training for degrees
For rector Francisco Rubio, the University of Las Palmas is characterised by its youth, technical origins and support from local society. "The university was something local people really wanted and...
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Will this be the end of autonomy?
Mary Lord, director of education and training at the TEC national council (page 10), has a vision. It is of universities harnessed to the chariot of national competitiveness and preparation for work...
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Cut gases or say sayonara
THISWEEK deputy prime minister John Prescott and environment minister Michael Meacher are in Kyoto negotiating binding international targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emission to combat global...
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Power and the market
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives the government the power to kill universities, argues Conrad Russell. ABOUT two years ago I was asked by a vice chancellor designate whether universities...
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Memories of jobs for life
Stephen Court argues that the growing use of casual labour in universities since the 1988 Act is more of a threat to academic freedom than the loss of staff tenure ON NOVEMBER 20 this year there was...
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Electronic copyright
MAURICE LONG, chair of the Publishers Licensing Society, is certainly aware that, under the terms of our old agreement, the society has received 100 per cent of the journal photocopying monies...
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Oxbridge stereotypes
I HAVE read your coverage of the Oxbridge college fee review with both interest and disappointment. In playing up the resentment that some other universities feel about the funding levels Oxford and...
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Oxbridge stereotypes
IT IS ironic that Mr Adonis should choose Oxford classics as emblematic of Oxbridge exclusivity (THES, November 28) when this subject has made leaps and bounds in attracting state school pupils. To...