Moves to revive Mediterranean campus links
Barcelona. Medcampus, the European Union programme for linking universities around the Mediterranean, is set to start up again after a break of two years. The move was announced at the European...
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Lab on the ocean wave
Las Palmas. The Canaries are an almost perfect laboratory for oceanography - "like having a ship in the middle of the ocean", says Santiago Hernandez, assistant dean of the University of Las Palmas...
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Five-star hotel training for degrees
For rector Francisco Rubio, the University of Las Palmas is characterised by its youth, technical origins and support from local society. "The university was something local people really wanted and...
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Will this be the end of autonomy?
Mary Lord, director of education and training at the TEC national council (page 10), has a vision. It is of universities harnessed to the chariot of national competitiveness and preparation for work...
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Cut gases or say sayonara
THISWEEK deputy prime minister John Prescott and environment minister Michael Meacher are in Kyoto negotiating binding international targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emission to combat global...
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Power and the market
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives the government the power to kill universities, argues Conrad Russell. ABOUT two years ago I was asked by a vice chancellor designate whether universities...
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Memories of jobs for life
Stephen Court argues that the growing use of casual labour in universities since the 1988 Act is more of a threat to academic freedom than the loss of staff tenure ON NOVEMBER 20 this year there was...
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Electronic copyright
MAURICE LONG, chair of the Publishers Licensing Society, is certainly aware that, under the terms of our old agreement, the society has received 100 per cent of the journal photocopying monies...
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Oxbridge stereotypes
I HAVE read your coverage of the Oxbridge college fee review with both interest and disappointment. In playing up the resentment that some other universities feel about the funding levels Oxford and...
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Oxbridge stereotypes
IT IS ironic that Mr Adonis should choose Oxford classics as emblematic of Oxbridge exclusivity (THES, November 28) when this subject has made leaps and bounds in attracting state school pupils. To...
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Coca-Cola recruits
Phil Baty, ("Howells defends corporate degree", THES, November 14), addresses only some of the issues that surround the partnership between employers and higher education. There are other reasons why...
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Futures at Leeds
THERE IS at least one exception to Perri 6's view of British academics (THES, November 28). Since September 1996 Leeds Metropolitan University has offered a masters degree in foresight and futures...
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Loans and fees logic out of kilter
IF THE reports are correct, the Labour government is now reaching the same conclusion as its Tory predecessors: however intelligent, just and appropriate its policy, there is always a difficulty...
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Loans and fees logic out of kilter
WHEN the new fees regime is implemented, it appears that "lifelong learning" will continue to have an age limit. Student loans are only available to people aged under 50 at present. This has a knock-...
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Barrels of fishy spies
THE RECENT release into the Public Record Office of MI5 records for 1909-19 (THES, November 28) deserves to be met with a healthy dose of scepticism. The main class of material released (KV1)...