Pisa
The University of Pisa has announced incentives of up to 25 per cent on top of salaries for lecturers who are prepared to work harder. The rector said there would be strong student representation on...
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Bukit Mertajam
Malaysia will begin enrolling students for a new £100m industrial university next July. The institution, modelled on its German equivalents, will offer degrees in information technology, electronics...
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Mexico City
Police were forced to intervene at Mexico City's Universidad Aut"noma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco last week after violence broke out during a student soccer friendly between 150 students from the...
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Canberra urged to boost R&
The leaders of Australia's major academic, scientific and business groups have called on the federal government to boost its spending on research and development. It is the first time the presidents...
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Towering cliches
Ian McNay states we are in the business of "client delight" (Letters, THES, October 6). I thought that we were concerned with teaching students. But that must just be my "traditionalist ivory-tower...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Tim Ingold attacked western science for its idea of the primitive world as a laboratory Edward Allison. School of Development Studies University of East Anglia Tim Ingold...
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Fantastic result
Graham Joyce, a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for the fourth time. Mr Joyce, who has taught creative writing at the university for...
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Fast track to Dundee
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is investing £300,000 to give its staff and students fast-track access to the information superhighway. The new computer network, Abertay GigaNet, will be 40 times...
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Nano-Toulouse
Nanotechnology is destined to become a multibillion-euro market - if the research can be moved successfully from the laboratory to the marketplace. The European Union has teamed with the National...
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Atomic articles
A subscription-based online software training magazine and tutorial archive have been launched. The training library is delivered via large-format QuickTime screen movies optimised for all bandwidths...
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Staffs is top dog
Staffordshire University is the best in the United Kingdom for customer service to prospective business students, according to the results of a telephone study by national advertising, research and...
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E-dream will only come true through teamwork
Open and distance learning is the future. David Hardy explains how Europe is overcoming the hurdles Higher education announces revolution more often than it achieves it. This is hardly surprising...
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Shaking off the old image is not without problems
Oxford University is keen to improve its image: more modern, open, scientific and technological; less a playground for the rich. But reputations are slow to change. In the ancient rivalry with...
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Not opening the purse will have drastic effect
The Department for Education and Employment is one of the few not to have announced its plans for the second and third years of the comprehensive spending review. Could it be that the minister...
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Indicators fail to perform well
The article on performance indicators on widening participation demonstrates the limitations of quantitative measures ("Paisley puts the elite to shame", THES, October 6). Many Russell Group...