Anger as foreigner fills v-c vacancy
AFRICA. The appointment of the University of Botswana's new vice-chancellor - the third since it was founded in 1982 - has caused controversy because she was recruited from outside southern Africa....
Search
-
-
Kenya sends graduate aid
AFRICA. Kenya is sending its unemployed university graduates to help reconstruct the civil-war ravaged countries of central Africa's Great Lakes region. Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic...
-
South African exam disaster
AFRICA. Many South African universities and colleges will have to consider lowering their entrance criteria for students following disastrous school-leaving results last week. More pupils failed than...
-
It's not what lecturers do, but how they say it
The sister of a faculty member at the University of Washington recently ran a search on his name on the World Wide Web. The first thing that came up was his student ratings - the spot verdicts passed...
-
Pressed to get a good read
UNIVERSITY presses are rejecting scholarly works with poor sales prospects in the United States and urging academics to write in a more popular style. This has left aspiring young professors in...
-
Scramble for students on full fees
Universities in Australia will be forced to recruit thousands of fee-paying students at home and overseas over the next three years to make up for funding cuts. An education department report for the...
-
Universities reopen to the sound of chattering teeth
CANADIAN university students are returning to lectures after weathering the worst ice storm to hit the country in 150 years. Three weeks ago, five days of rain coupled with below-freezing...
-
Red tape checks research surge
Italy's National Research Council is under attack for being top-heavy, wasteful, insufficiently productive and too centralised. A radical reform of the council, which controls research centres...
-
Benefits cushion for change
THE House of Lords is considering the detail of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill to reorganise student loans and give ministers power to make universities charge students fees at a set level....
-
Break down the union barriers
Six years after the creation of the new universities distinctions are blurring. They teach as well as old universities - especially if allowance is made for their bigger classes and different...
-
Caveats in defence of autonomy
TWO requirements handed to the draftsmen of part two of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill were to ensure that institutions make new home and European Union undergraduate entrants pay tuition...
-
Identity crisis for the new generation of teachers
Trainee teacher Toby Marshall thinks his fellow students have bought new Labour's hype on education and forgotten about developing intellectual independence In September 1996 I enrolled on a...
-
The silence of the ordinances
Procedures for making appointments, particularly to chairs, are surprisingly informal, says Richard Clogg. He calls for Scandinavian-style openness The THES's campaign to introduce an element of...
-
Clans cross borders
An interesting game of national and political identities emerges from "Clan mentality rules in Italian universities" (THES, January 9). This implies two European countries, obviously Italy and...
-
Glasnost factor in peer reviews
SUSAN Greenfield says that peer review procedures are stifling the "derring-do and innovative thinking that gave this country a reputation for truly astonishing science" (Letters, THES, January 16)....