US institutions entice old staff to leave early
The University of Pittsburgh has become the latest research university in the United States to offer a retirement plan intended to ease out its oldest faculty staff. From January 1, for just three...
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China turns to loans to aid poor students
Student loans will play a key role in China's efforts to create an efficient financial aid system for its 560,000 poor university and college students. A State Education Commission report says that...
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Black v-c pans race policy on teachers
The vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Mamphela Ramphele, has stung the South African government with a public attack on its attempts to increase the proportion of black teachers at...
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Obolensk begs for lifeline
CRISIS-RIDDEN scientific cities in Russia are lobbying the Kremlin for a legal lifeline to save them from total collapse. The Association of Scientific Towns of Russia is putting pressure on federal...
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Pisa puts quarriers at cutting edge
ITALY's Carrara quarriers have supplied the world with white marble to build monuments for millennia but modern life has blunted their cutting edge. The craftsmen who directed the quarrying and...
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A clash of culture vultures
THE ADOPTION of a still unrecognised three-year "short degree" in cultural heritage studies at the universities of Florence and Udine in October has fuelled a heated debate on the merits of combining...
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Questions of responsibility
The Quality Assessment Agency inquiry at Thames Valley University, the debate about Oxbridge college fees and the publication of the Higher Education Quality Council/QAA continuation audit reports on...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: of social, economic and political studies first degrees awarded by UK higher education institutions: 4.4 per cent were first...
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Control of buyers and sellers
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords last Thursday. Many wanted to speak, and many of those who did criticised the sweeping powers the bill gives...
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Socrates deserves its grande finale
A threatened unilateral ban on the import of beef and the fudge over Britain's membership of the inner circle of countries running the single currency have left a nasty taste in the mouth in the...
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Teenage angst ignores fees
Tamsyn Imison asked her sixth-formers if cost will stop them going to university THE government's decision to start its education reform legislation by changing the funding arrangements for full-time...
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Fellowships
American Academy of Management Andrew Pettigrew, professor of organisational behaviour in the University of Warwick's business school, and Gary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology at the...
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Promotions
Queen Mary and Westfield College Readerships: J. Boffey, medieval studies; M. Fitzmaurice, international law; J. Grahl, economics of European integration; S. Greenwald, cardiovascular biomechanics...
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Copyright shake-up raises fears
DANGEROUS loopholes exist in new rules which aim to harmonise copyright arrangements in Europe, publishers have warned. The European Commission's draft directive aims to ensure fair copyright...
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Sir Ron takes Melbourne seat
SIR RON Dearing is to become one of two overseas members of Melbourne University's new governing council in 1998. It is the first time an Australian university has invited distinguished foreign...