Draft law criticised
A European law expert has warned that draft regulations covering part time workers in further and higher education are badly flawed, writes Harriet Swain. In a legal opinion delivered as the...
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Rivals bid for doctors in the house
Rival bids were launched this week to set up a medical school taking 600 new medical students within five years. The universities of Exeter and Plymouth have joined Truro National Health Service...
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Ofsted hints at hardline on FE
Schools standards chief Chris Woodhead has signalled a tough new approach to college inspections when Ofsted takes over as the further education watchdog. Mr Woodhead, chief inspector of schools,...
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Early booking
The American Academy of Pediatrics has signed an agreement with e-book developer Everybook that will give the academy's members and subscribers access to electronic publication of the medical journal...
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Does the research assessment exercise discriminate against women?
Does the research assessment exercise discriminate against women? Email soapbox@thes.co.uk
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
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World watch
The Autonomous University of Barcelona, not the University of Barcelona, topped a table of Spanish universities published by the Gazeta Universitaria (THES, January 28). The University of Barcelona...
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English 'crucial' in Japan
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...
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Foreign students surge into Australia
MELBOURNE Enrolments of foreign students in Australian universities are expected to exceed all records in 2000, partly as a result of a substantial growth in new markets. More than 100,000 fee-paying...
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Ontario in dock for pocketing undergraduate funds
MONTREAL Three Ontario students have returned cheques from a Canadian grant programme, claiming their provincial government is pocketing funds intended to ease their debt. More students may soon join...
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University of Nairobi crippled by major cash crisis
NAIROBI The University of Nairobi has crippling debts of more than Pounds 13 million and creditors have threatened to withdraw services until they are paid. The local power-generating company has...
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Putting the boot in
(Photograph) - Ian Netton with a pair of boots that are among artefacts in a collection at the University of Leeds's new centre of Mediterranean studies. The centre will offer a masters degree from...
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Don's diary
Sunday God - it is tough today. A white-out all day and with no sun to navigate, we have to stop and check the compass regularly to ensure we do not go off course. The snow has the consistency of...
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Bologna
Official figures from a databank that links 13 Italian universities show that 56 per cent of 1998 graduates found employment within one year of graduating, a 3.4 per cent rise over the previous year.
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Academic ousts Oz cyber-squatter
MELBOURNE An academic acted as an assessor in the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation's (Wipo) first decision on an Australian "cyber-squatting" dispute. The dispute, which...