Britain is tops for US students
The number of Americans studying overseas increased dramatically last year to more than 100,000, and the United Kingdom continued to attract most of them. But increasing competition from non-...
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LA teaching assistants strike
In what seems a measure of growing discontent among United States graduate students, particularly in the humanities, teaching assistants at the University of California have walked off the job at...
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MLAlienation and my part in it
No British experience can compare with the MLA, says Diane Purkiss I tried to join the Modern Language Association in 1991. The association swallowed up a big fat money order and never replied. So I...
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Canadian students deeper in debt
Evidence of rapidly growing debt among Canadian students has been confirmed by a survey commissioned by Statistics Canada. Based on a 15 per cent sample of 1995 university and college graduates, the...
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All together a loan
Project Pride wants to simplify the process of getting information from the world's libraries. Mike Holderness reports. While the International Workers of the World sang about One Big Union,...
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Peter Mandelson
(Photograph) - Peter Mandelson, secretary of state for trade and industry, takes the controls of a Pounds 1 million-plus virtual reality simulator at the opening of the University of Teesside's...
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Wall on the road
A team from the University of Kent will take the 1999 Faraday Lecture on a nine-week tour of 14 cities, telling the story of "The Digital World" to secondary school students and the public. The show...
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E-journal award
A sociology publication from the University of Surrey has won this year's Charlesworth Group Award for electronic journals. Sociological Research Online was praised for its "branding" and for other...
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Navigating south
Amaze, the digital media company spun off from Liverpool John Moore's University, has opened a London studio so it can be closer to clients in the capital. The company has a unique user-driven...
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Glad tidings for the scientific entrepreneur
The white paper on competitiveness will nurture new links between business and science, says Peter Mandelson. Science and technology are the bedrock on which British industry must build for a...
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Science must still prove it is value for money
This year, British science has had the unexpected sensation of seeing real new money coming its way. This week's plethora of science announcements (pages 1 and 3), including the white paper on...
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Accountants and NVQs
Your item on the new vocational qualifications (THES, December 4) contained two false statements about national vocational qualifications that are commonly made and that do not assist efforts to...
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Speaking up for the lab animals
The fact that the Animal Rights Militia (THES, December 11) allegedly threatened to kill researchers if Barry Horne died on hunger strike should not be used as a pretext to condemn the entire anti-...
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Serious Scots
Readers could be forgiven for believing that much of the Scottish National Party's "People's Assembly on Education" was devoted to a row between the Association of University Teachers (Scotland) and...
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Return to the RAE
The past few issues of The THES have witnessed early signs of a return to obsessive concern with an oncoming research assessment exercise. Some of my time recently has been spent travelling, and it...