Geographer quits society in Shell protest
The academic who last year proposed that the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers drop Shell as a corporate sponsor has announced his decision to resign from the society a...
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Labour promise one board in A-level row
A Labour government would wipe out the six A-level exam boards and create a single, more accountable national board, the party has confirmed following the latest grade inflation scandal. Last week...
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'Prejudice' fears over inquiry
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government has appointed the English former headmaster of an elite Sydney private school to chair a Dearing-style inquiry into the future of higher education. Roderick West, who has a...
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Bankrupt Ukraine cancels grants
Ukraine students have received an unwelcome new year present from their government. The payment of grants has been cancelled, as from January 1, and in future will be paid only to those students who...
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SA dentist helps to heal racial abscess
When Jairam Reddy left school in the 1960s there was nowhere in South Africa where he could study his chosen profession, dentistry. There were universities which offered dentistry, but not to people...
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Kuala Lumpur reacts to Islamic revival
Malaysia is to create a new Arabic centre in response to growing student interest in Islamic studies. The centre, which will be based at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, will act as a feeder for...
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Free foreign trips lure young
This year for the first time students who enrolled at the Lake Erie College in Ohio were handed passport applications along with their other registration forms. If they stay until their third year,...
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Students tempted to enter sex trade
Police reports on Japan's sex industry have revealed that thousands of university students are working as hustlers, escorts and prostitutes in the country's red light districts. Earning money from a...
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Poor face exclusion
The education of professionals in ߣߣÊÓƵn universities is moving towards a user-pays regime that could stifle demand and restrict access to the affluent, according to the Higher Education Council...
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Genetics debate must be open
THE NEW science of genetics contains some of the most complete challenges ever created to who we are and how we live. By comparison, nuclear power is just another way to boil water and computers are...
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Key issues beyond Sir Ron's remit
It is too bad that Samuel Beckett did not live long enough to see the first half of 1997. He would probably rather have enjoyed the spectacle of British higher education re-enacting his most famous...
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Me-me-me monsters in our midst
I should like to add my voice to those who are recognising an unfortunate sea change in attitude among undergraduates. I am not an aged educational elitist: I am 30 years old, and my research into...
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Ex-polys can now reach for the stars in research
The performance of the 1960s universities in the research assessment exercise gives hope to their 1990s successors and destroys the case for an elite grouping, says Frank Gould It might be assumed...
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Pensions for all
The proposed changes in the pension scheme for teachers have added weight to the arguments for a new superannuation scheme to cover all professors, lecturers and academic-related staff in all...
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Come back, Cardinal Newman
It is refreshing to see Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University regaining currency in debates on the purposes of higher education. It is quite wrong however for Frank Webster (Opinion, THES,...