Rome revisits archaeology
Italian universities and the foreign academies in Rome, including the British School, are key elements of a five-year programme of archaeological exploration in the city that its supporters hope will...
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Milosevic imposes 'communist' management on university
Belgrade University, the oldest and the most prestigious academic institution in Serbia, is facing a law which will stifle all management rights and freedoms. Academics and students believe the new...
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Turks enforce head-dress law
Women students who cover their heads in conformity with Muslim religion have been barred from their end-of-year exams at Istanbul University. Security guards attempted forcibly to remove the students...
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Dutch in row over Islam
THEFOUNDINg of two Islamic study centres has stirred mixed emotions among academics and Muslims in the Netherlands. The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World is a...
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The pros and cons of intervention
Sir Stephen Tumim's departure from St Edmund Hall in Oxford is more Tom Sharpe novel than Harvard business school case study, but it is nonetheless an unwelcome distraction to those in the university...
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Two sectors, one voice
UNIVERSITIES are a great industry whose product is crucial to the economic, cultural and social survival of the nation. Yet that industry has more problems than ever before. External authority...
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Imperial plans a get-together
Banks do it, television companies have mostly done it already, car manufacturers do it with enthusiasm: and now higher education is doing it in bulk. As we show on page 6, mergers are in fashion, but...
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How spending review can be a win/win situation
Higher education must cite Dearing in its case for extra money instead of falling for the divide-and-rule trick, says Leslie Wagner The outcome of the comprehensive spending review does not look too...
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Video must not kill the lecture
Jim Stevenson urges caution on filming high-quality lectures and distributing them widely. He says a series on the dos and don'ts of lecturing would be better SOME years ago a colleague at the...
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Don's Diary
Monday Start gentle. Coffee with a colleague who is on sabbatical, discussing a nagging question: can there really be an evolutionary psychology? These days, many of us psychologists are keen to sign...
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How Brits can bridge the Gulf
IT IS BOOM time in the Gulf and it is not because of oil. Higher education is growing rapidly. The rise in numbers of students in Dubai alone from the early 1970s to 1996 has been 766 per cent (40,...
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Smart colleges will act now to reform governing bodies
WE ALL remember the theory that inspired public sector reform. The notion was that if the spenders of public cash were governed by business people, selected for office rather than elected to it, the...
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Appointments
University of Reading The following have been appointed pro vice-chancellors from October 1: Michael Fulford, professor in the department of archaeology, dean of the faculty of letters and social...
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Promotions
Lancaster University The following senior lecturers have been promoted to readerships: Margaret Ives, German studies; Les Smith, psychology and epistemology of development; David Smith, Indian...
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Chairs
Wellcome Trust Valerie Smith, marine microbiologist and reader in the school of environmental and evolutionary biology at the University of St Andrews, has been awarded a Wellcome visiting...