Canadian liberal arts face up to a cash crisis
Small public liberal arts universities are becoming increasingly vulnerable in Canada, and the door may be opening for private universities to take their place. Ontario and New Brunswick have opened...
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Powerhouses of success need fuel as well as figures
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's latest figures (pages 6-7) put only Norway ahead of the United Kingdom in the proportion of the population getting degrees. By 1997 -...
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Games people play to stay in research race
A 66-year-old professor at a Midlands university is under orders not to retire until the research assessment exercise is complete. Without his books and papers, the research productivity of his...
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'Deplorable' university pay increase rejected
University lecturers this week rejected a "full and final" 3 per cent pay increase, an improvement on the 2.5 per cent originally offered, but still lower than the offers made to teachers in schools...
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Knight's job score 'favours mediocre'
Managers at the University of Central England have drawn up an unprecedented points system for deciding which staff to make redundant. Union leaders were outraged when five lecturers in the built...
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Cubie reply promotes equality
The Scottish Executive will next week unveil plans to get rid of the anomalies in student support between higher and further education. It will publish its long-awaited full response to the Cubie...
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Gap year gets blessing of v-cs
Vice-chancellors think that students should defer entry to university to take a well-structured year out. Most vice-chancellors believe that both individuals and their institutions benefit from their...
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Culture clash
(Photograph) - Students barricaded in Cairo's Al-Azhar University are demanding the resignation of Egypt's culture minister for approving republication of a novel that they say insults Islam. A...
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Vacancies at Unesco test merit promises
Unesco's selection process for four top-level posts, including head of its education directorate, is presenting director-general Koichiro Matsuura with a test of his election promises to modernise...
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Florence asks for students' opinions
At the end of the academic year, all 62,000 students at Florence University will hand in their reports on the functioning of the university, including an evaluation of the academics who teach them....
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Uneasy neighbours agree to exchanges
Turkish and Armenian universities have signed an agreement that is seen as an important step towards helping to improve relations between the two countries, writes Dorian Jones. Turkey's University...
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Germany shakes up courses to expand pool of IT graduates
German chancellor Gerhard Schroder has announced plans for a E51 million (Pounds 30 million) programme to modernise informatics courses at universities and Fachhochschulen to help the country...
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Minister rethinks X-ray for France
PARIS France's new research minister, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, last week presented his policies, most of them continuing and building on the programmes of his predecessor, Claude All gre. The...
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Time for a poor quota
Top universities should reserve places for pupils from deprived schools, says Andrew Pakes The chance of going to a so-called "top" university is less than one in a 100 if you are from a low-income...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...Frank Burdett disagreed with the recommendation of the Nuffield languages report that all students wanting to go to university must have a foreign-language qualification Harry...