Cold wind blows on growth hope
The looming recession, formally acknowledged by ministers for the first time this week, could scupper plans to raise higher education funding, economists and vice-chancellors have warned. The...
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Corruption inquiry hits SA university
An inquiry is under way into unrest, labour practices and allegations of corruption at the University of the North, Turfloop. It is the fourth South African higher education institution to be probed...
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Private sector wins case for public fees
A private college in Dublin has won an important High Court case establishing its right to run publicly funded degree courses in computer science. Last year Griffith College was invited to tender for...
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Refugees welcomed with grant
Academics who have fled persecution or the ravages of war could find a lifeline in Canada if the University of Toronto raises the cash for refugee fellowships. The fund will provide invited...
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Albanian students arrested
Inter-ethnic fighting in Kosovo and disturbances in Albania have had a knock-on effect in Macedonia, where ethnic Albanians make up more than 20 per cent of the population. There have been numerous...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Booker prize judge Valentine Cunningham asked whether such competitions as the Booker, which blend writing, money and public relations, add anything to our academic study of...
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Hylife on the electronic frontier
Tony Durham sorts clumps from hybrids in phase three of eLib The Electronic Libraries research programme, launched after the 1993 Follett report, is now in its third phase with 30 projects active at...
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Grand central
The New Athenaeum web site is a central registry for Internet resource guides developed as a metaguide by libraries and librarians. It aims to pool intellectual resources via hyperlinks and is sorted...
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Hawking home
A Pounds 7.5 million gift to the University of Cambridge from Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore and his wife Betty will fund the Physical Sciences and Technology Library, housing the Stephen...
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Suffolk university
A Pounds 1,460,000 grant from the European Social Fund and technical support from BT will kickstart a two-year pilot project in Suffolk that aims to build the infrastructure for a dispersed...
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Material reward
The Council for Learning Resources in Colleges is offering a Pounds 500 award for innovative use of information and learning technology, for example internet/intranet pages of the learning resource...
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Cure for hype on the cards
Web data needs to be sorted by people we trust. Step forward the librarians says Stephen Pinfield. For years we have relied on librarians to catalogue books. On ledgers and cards, then on microfiche...
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Development cloaked in emperor's new clothes
The new jargon of international aid agencies loses sight of the goal - to fight poverty, says Helen Hintjens. All the evidence suggests growing absolute and relative poverty in the "developing world...
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Recession could pay dividends for higher education
Recessions are not all bad news for higher education, unlike for banks. If the City of London ceases to offer rocket scientists million-pound bonuses, they may stay in academic life. If the brightest...
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Real narrow science
Scientist John Lloyd's widely held view supporting "critical realism" against anti-realism that science discovers "a realityI out thereI independent of our theorising" (Letters, THES September 18)...