Sell-off sparks fury
ACADEMICS and students in Brazil have united to block the planned sell-off of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest mining company. Brokers Merrill Lynch had drawn up the sell-off tender...
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For collegiality, call Mr Fixit
WHEN Concordia professor Valery Fabrikant was convicted of killing four colleagues in 1992 the university called in an outside expert to review its administration. Harry Arthurs delivered a harsh...
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Learning bank for Oz Labor
AS BRITAIN'S New Labour government begins to put its education policies in practice, a defeated Labor Party in ߣߣÊÓƵ is preparing a dramatic overhaul of its previous attitudes to how universities...
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55-day strike finally ends
YORK University students were hurriedly sent back to finish their last week of classes less than 24 hours after their professors voted to end the longest strike in Canadian university history, writes...
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CATS needs cradling - by academics
THE EDITOR of The THES has wisely identified credit accumulation and transfer (CATS) as one of the keys to the future development of higher education, and one with profound implications. It has been...
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Changing picture entraps unions
This is union meeting season, the Association of University Teachers' council last week, Natfhe starting tomorrow and Unison next week. Futher and higher education unions are in a difficult bind....
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No charity in paying full costs
UNIVERSITIES will look with some unease at this week's report on the infrastructure for academic research (page three), produced by a forum including major research funders in the public, private and...
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Is there really a problem of graduate 'over-education'?
Peter Dolton and Anna Vignoles challenge the notion that Britain has too many students. The higher education sector in the United Kingdom has experienced virtually continuous growth in student...
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Openness is our business
Academics should be in the forefront of the campaign to press the new Labour administration to open up government, argue Iain McLean and Greg Terrill. So the Labour government will not introduce a...
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A punishment for no crime
ANTHEA MILLETT's letter about La Sainte Union, Southampton (THES, May 16), prompts two comments. The decision of the governing body not to appeal against withdrawal of its accreditation by the...
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History's men at war
TWO comments, one question, a task, and a moral (sounds like a good movie - I hope Hugh Grant is free!) relating to Harriet Swain's excellent discussion of the postmodernist critique of history (THES...
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Openness is a must
YOU report (THES, May 9) that Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, "has urged universities and colleges to be more open about the way they distribute...
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UCoSDA is a guide
TWO points in Alison Utley's engaging but in places misleading piece "Battle over training models" (THES, May 2) need clarifying. First, I have not sent questionnaires to academics in Scotland. The...
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The rise of the AUT
I WAS disappointed to see in your articles on lecturers' unions (THES, May 16) although you referred to the Association of University Teachers Council you omitted any mention of my presidential...
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A strike too far
LAST week the work of Kingsway College was disrupted by a one-day strike backed by fewer than 20 per cent of the college's lecturers. The action was driven through by a small political minority...