Navigating the moral maze
South Africa's search for a new ethics must involve everybody in a living bill of rights, says Brenda Gourley Academic diversity, some claim, can lead easily to moral and ethical apathy. It has been...
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Eye witness
Europe's historical powder keg continues to smoulder as international efforts to bring peace to the Serbian province of Kosovo are confused by mixed signals from Belgrade. While Yugoslav president...
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Teaching fund fillip
Essex University has set up an Pounds 25,000 annual fund to encourage innovation in teaching and learning. Staff can bid for up to Pounds 5,000 for individual projects with collaborative bids linking...
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The all-work and no-play way to a degree
Students nowadays are more mature, resourceful and realistic, but is over-assessment pushing them too hard, asks Jim Parry When we moan about workloads, it is the growing demands on academics that...
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The tough transition from school deadlines
The all-work and no-play way to a degree Jim Gardner, National Union of Students vice-president for education, says there is a strong case for integrating study skills into the undergraduate...
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Letter
The use of learning outcomes such as employability skills seems to be gaining respectability (THES, November 13; November 20), yet they embody aims and values that are the antithesis of what many...
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Letter
Michael Bulley responds to Phil Race's article on learning outcomes (Letters, November 20) by criticising the use of jargon and saying he has no idea of what the learning outcome of his teaching is...
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Brits target tough markets abroad
The British Council is targeting new overseas higher education markets in the wake of the Southeast Asian crisis. The council's Education Counselling Service, is spending nearly Pounds 1 million on...
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Blair trip triggers overseas scholarship review
Civil servants are seeking ways of encouraging more overseas students to come to Britain. An inter-departmental review has been launched in the wake of prime minister Tony Blair's visit to China in...
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Tank trap
(Photograph) - Tank trap: Athens Polytechnic students lead a march marking the 25th anniversary of the deaths of more than 20 Greek students killed when the tanks of the then military junta...
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Theology turns the other cheek
There are two issues here. 1. Should denominational clergy, religion teachers, and other church workers be trained at state-run universities? This is an issue only in countries such as England and...
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Guidelines for overseas courses
* Derby University is pressing quality watchdogs to review its guidelines for overseas courses. The university has a franchising arrangement with Israel's Council for Higher Education. Israel is...
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Lund
Lund University faces cuts of 79 million kroner (Pounds 5.94 million) as a result of the Swedish government's 1999 finance bill. Between 60 and 80 staff and 1,100 student places in arts, theology and...
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Rome
Italy and France have created a joint authority to promote and coordinate research doctorates recognised in both countries, working with the education ministries. The "Italo-French University", with...
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Pisa
The Italian Rectors' Conference is to oppose ministry plans to upgrade nearly 4,000 graduate technicians from non-teaching staff to tenured researcher status. Chairman Luciano Modica, rector of the...