Apocalypse exercises brains
THE WORLD apparently will end with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an academic conference. The approach of the millennium has spawned apocalyptic studies programmes, books and multi-disciplinary...
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Defence scholarships
The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency has launched a scholarship scheme for at least 40 mathematics, science and engineering students. The scholarship is worth Pounds 1,000 per student per year...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
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China reform brings job cuts
The most radical restructuring of Chinese government since the Communists came to power in 1949 is having a direct affect on graduate job prospects. Chinese premier Zhu Rongji has announced sweeping...
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Degree sale inflames students
KENYAN students are demanding tougher action against rackets involving the sale of degree certificates and academic transcripts. There is also an outcry against the introduction of part-time degrees...
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Ugandans fight for human rights
UGANDA boasts a decade of relative peace, its first in recent history. Yet even with a liberal new constitution, rewritten in 1995, and a human rights commission, forging democracy is daunting. "The...
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Out to lunch on journalism
JOURNALISM ought to be one of Sir Ron Dearing's favourite higher education subjects. Its educators teach people to be well equipped for work; to contribute effectively to society; to serve the needs...
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Retire old notions of adult education
Adult Learners' Week begins tomorrow (pages 6 and 17). This should have been a euphoric time. We have a government committed to encouraging lifelong learning and a raft of plans for bringing it about...
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Gold standard guarantees mediocrity
Britain should abandon its costly and cumbersome system of separate centralised national assessments of research and teaching, says David Smith. BRITAIN has a more costly and time-consuming system of...
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Give us freedom to exploit our expertise
Higher education's role in the economic and social well-being of Britain should be recognised and underpinned, says Marilyn Wedgwood HIGHER education has always had an important implicit role in...
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Bolton at the door
Education secretary David Blunkett will shortly meet senior staff from Bolton Institute to consider awarding it a university title. Very little has been done to poll and understand views at the...
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Short-term jobs battle
MARTIN Cloonan is to be commended for seeking to protect employees' rights (THES, May 8), but there is surely a duty on university employers and others to protect taxpayers' and donors' right to know...
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Labelled in error
IN A generally thoughtful and well-informed review of my book, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (THES, April 17), Neil Gregor takes me to task for sins I have not committed. First,...
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The nanny assessors
MARTIN Brady misses the point of the argument about the Quality Assessment Agency (Letters, THES, May 1). Universities are not objecting to accountability but to inappropriate interference in a...
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The nanny assessors
I AGREE with the views of Roger Brown (THES, May 8) on the new Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Over-auditing, apart from being an unnecessary overhead, also lowers...