AUT calls for truce with Natfhe
The Association of University Teachers has today made public a strategy to bring to a halt two years of rivalry and disagreement with lecturers' union Natfhe by creating a single union for higher...
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Data wars dispute hits research
Global environmental research could be seriously damaged in an escalating dispute about who should pay for satellite data. Last week the United States fired the latest salvoes in what is being called...
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Keep your huddled masses
'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' beseeches the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. It is a welcome many in the US would not extend to today's immigrants, whom they see as too...
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Harried by the mob
Lucy Hodges reports on the challenges facing a world with six billion inhabitants The statistics are sobering. Global population, which stands at 5.7 billion, is expected to almost double by the...
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The doctors' stroke of luck
Would you save the life of a dictator who was in the habit of arresting doctors whose prognoses displeased him? Zhores Medvedev speculates that Stalin's death was a mite premature At the beginning of...
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The end is nigh
John Leslie argues that if you view the certainty of global warming, the likelihood of nuclear war and the possibility of grey goo calamity from the perspective of the doomsday argument, nobody...
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Loan wagon in need of repair
The bandwagon is rolling for some form of graduate tax. The executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is pushing hard on the idea of an income-contingent loan, a scheme operating...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Eating satay in the comfort of Malaysia Airlines I ponder why I should be travelling 6,500 miles to teach on a masters in management degree course. British Aerospace had explained to me at a...
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Bemoan the folly of the hour
In the week that the Irish cabinet agreed on draft university legislation, Vincent McBrierty examines government participation in university affairs Political intrusion into the governance of...
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Just keep on moving . . .
The internationalisation of higher education needs attention, says Roger King The flow of students across national boundaries in pursuit of their studies has long been regarded as beneficial - for...
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The logic in loans
Apparently, "people think that if you talk about income-contingent loans frequently enough, the problem will go away" ("Loans idea 'irritates' Forth, THES, February 9). Who are these people? As far...
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Boy's own advertising
In response to the Perspective article headlined "Grey natter" (THES, January 26), does Robin Dunbar then hold the view that if men's gossip is purely advertising, men should be seen and not heard? C...
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Jobs offer defers military service
Russia. Five hundred Russian graduates a year will have their military service deferred indefinitely, under a new decree aimed at preserving Russia's "scientific potential". They will be selected...
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One of our sponsors is missing
The Netherlands. The Dutch Aviation College is to lose 10 per cent of its 1,400 students in the next academic year following the bankruptcy of aeroplane maker Fokker. The loss is likely to include 60...
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ߣߣÊÓƵn academics snub Labor
ߣߣÊÓƵ's Labor government has lost the support of the nation's 55,000 academics. For the first time in three federal elections, the academics' industrial organisation - the National Tertiary...