Pleasure at QAA's pain
University administrators meeting in Exeter this week were treated to a description of the Quality Assurance Agency by David Allen, registrar and secretary of the University of Birmingham: "It audits...
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Don's Diary: Lent quintet
Lent 1997 At the main gate of Lincoln College, Oxford, discuss focus of the next "Turl Street Arts Festival", an annual venture run by the undergraduates of Lincoln, Jesus, and Exeter colleges every...
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Don't co-opt, just cooperate
Universities are happy to work with the government, but they do not want to be directed solely by market or political dictates, Bryan Gould writes Too many lawyers and accountants? Not enough...
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Eyewitness: Islam finds way to safe investment
The Islamic world is on the brink of launching a money market. The two main centres for the proposed market are the island Gulf state of Bahrain and Labuan, Malaysia's off-shore financial centre in...
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World watch
Washington DC President George W. Bush's 2002 US budget proposal raises total spending on federally backed basic research by 6 per cent, but funds for global change research will fall by 4 per cent....
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Students besiege leader's HQ
Students besieged the Ukrainian president's office this week and tried to make him swear on the Bible and constitution that he was not responsible for the murders of journalist Heorhiy Honhadze and...
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Thailand follows Oz route to liberty
Thailand plans to give its 25 public universities more autonomy by adopting the same system of institutional governance as Australia, writes Geoff Maslen. Universities in Thailand operate under the...
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President plants ally to reform authority
The battle between Turkey's president and the leadership of the country's higher education authority, Yok, has intensified following President Ahmet Necdet Sezer's decision to appoint Burhan...
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Dons 'pressed' to dumb down
The University of New South Wales last week announced an inquiry into "soft marking" for students paying full fees. The move, the first of its kind in Australia, follows claims that academics have...
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Walk tall
Research assistant James Oldham adjusts the marker devices on a patient at the University of Plymouth's Movement Gait Analysis Laboratory. The university has spent more than £140,000 on cameras,...
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Higher education appointments
University of Durham Colette Eggleton , formerly responsible for marketing Learning North East at the University of Sunderland, has been appointed marketing and development manager to the university'...
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eTutor of the Year 2001
eTutor of the Year 2001 Are you using a virtual learning environment? Are you using it as more than just a web site? Win £1,000 cash in a THES/LTSN competition Full details and entry form Closing...
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The ownership of knowledge
How can the public good of free access to information be balanced against the commercial necessity of paying for its creation? And what is the impact of the digital economy? In March 2001...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Canadian cultural critic: "The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology - is...
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To seek values shared though culture divides
Is it true that Christianity has no unified view? asks Richard Harries. The assumption running through this book is one that we have to take seriously: that we live in a postmodern world. In short,...