A chief from abroad?
The repute of the new Institute for Learning and Teaching appears to have spread, even a good four months before it is due to be up and running this April. Originally, the closing date for applicants...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Admissions week. A year of letter writing, school visits, sixth-form conferences and open days has all been leading up to this point, and now 14 young classicists are about to descend on St...
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Research assessment chairs
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced the following chairs of unit of assessment panels for the 2001 research assessment exercise. Asterisks mark chairs unchanged since 1996'...
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Praise to juvenile efforts
'We should all be writing for children. We've gotta get them young,' said Harvey Kaye. He got the chance and found it hard but rewarding work. The Christmas and Chanukah holiday season seems a most...
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Hungarian-language teaching in Romania
Hungarian-taught higher education for Romania's Hungarian minority was promised in the 1997 Hungary-Romanian Treaty of Friendship. To allay Romanian fears of Hungarian irredentism, the Romanian...
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Brest
Seven students from Brest National Engineering School are the first to be convicted under a new French law against violent initiation rites traditionally carried out against freshers, especially in...
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Murder charges have been dropped after more than two years against Nancy Morrison, a professor of medicine at Dalhousie University and a respirologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre...
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Ruka calls for return to normality
Albanian education and science minister Ethem Ruka says a democratic mentality, Europeanisation and the reinstatement of plain normality are key to the urgent improvement of his country's university...
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Grandes ecoles rise to global challenge
Top French business schools linked to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry are adapting to global economic trends with the establishment of two international training centres. The schools...
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German heretic remains in a chair
Radical German theologian Gerd Ludemann, who sparked a controversy by renouncing Christianity, is to keep his professorial chair at the theology department at Gottingen University. But the title of...
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In other words...
We need to add a sense of proportion missing from your report on languages at the University of Huddersfield ("Huddersfield silences modern languages", THES, December 11). The three programmes to...
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Contracts to motivate universities
The leaders of Danish universities will have to prove that they are giving value for money if research minister Jan Tr?jborg's plans to introduce modern leadership principles are realised. Future...
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'Bone man' loses his job
British-born Ron Clarke, whose recent unearthing of a near complete ape-man skeleton is considered one of Africa's most important palaeoanthropological breakthroughs, has lost his job at the...
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Campuses riven by killings
Examination calendars in Nigeria's 34 state and federal-owned universities have become unpredictable since military rule truncated the second republic of Nigeria in December, 1983. Universities have...
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Student dies of thirst in vending tragedy
Montreal An urban-legends website lists death by toppling vending machine among its more bizarre accidental fatalities, but the story was tragically real for one Canadian university student. Kevin...