UK bottom of G7 spending
The latest official figures from the Office of Science and Technology show that between 1984 and 1995 the United Kingdom notched up the lowest growth in gross expenditure on research and development...
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Maize riddle sparks Chinese puzzle
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle A piece of clay pottery from a site in China may provide evidence of the earliest...
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Graduate tax dice dooms low paid to lifetime debt
ߣߣÊÓƵns who take a five-year architecture degree may spend the next 55 years paying off their tuition fees, and still owe the federal government thousands of dollars, according to an analysis by...
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Calculus suffers maths backlash
GROWING enthusiasm in the United States for a return to a more traditional education in schools and colleges has taken university mathematics by storm. Reforms in the teaching of calculus to make it...
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Official dissent in the ranks
UNITEDSTATES higher education officials are fighting a losing battle with popular but controversial independent college and university ratings guides in an effort to ensure that they contain accurate...
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Technical hitch hits Irish
THE IRISH government has moved swiftly to defuse growing protests over the status of the country's 11 regional technical colleges. A decision to upgrade Waterford college to institute level with the...
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Paris adopts streetwise pose
FRENCH education minister Francois Bayrou has proposed "global" university reform covering teaching, research, student aid, academic careers and management. This is the first attempt at university...
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Race case sparks freedom debate
THE CASE of a university professor from Madrid accused of racism is fuelling debate in Spain over the limits of academic freedom. Guillermo Quintana, professor of educational psychology at the...
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Researchers fight retirement law
DOZENS of France's top researchers have banded together to fight a law forcing them to retire at the age of 65 instead of 68. About 100 researchers in the top "class one" and "exceptional class"...
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Land sale leads to thuggery
AN ANGRY mob of 200 staff at the Quaid-i-Azam University in the Pakistan capital of Islamabad marched on the physics department last month to hurl obscenities and death threats at two professors who...
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Serbs censure minister
SERBIA's education minister has come under fire for his stance towards students' pro-democracy protests within days of taking office in a government reshuffle. Belgrade University's Committee for the...
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Gearing up for a rich research base
British government spending on university science is Pounds 2.3 billion in the current financial year, equivalent to an income tax rate of 1.8p per pound - not bad when the basic rate is only 24p....
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What does assessment mean?
League tables and performance indicators are much beloved by funders and by newspapers, but less loved by those they grade who understand the distortions they can produce. This week it is the turn of...
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The bond that can work miracles
Last November, the THES noted that the Seventh Day Adventist Newbold College was awaiting the second coming of Christ and Sir Ron Dearing. Sir Ron may be cautious about the Messianic status he enjoys...
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Talking totals
David Law asks whether quality assessment results could ever be used to produce a league table of the best teaching universities League tables are a national preoccupation in education. The research...