India's view of struggle
INDIA's ten best-known historians have embarked on a government-funded project to rebut the view that independence from Britain came through a smooth and voluntary transfer of power. The historians,...
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Macao plans for takeover
CHINA's resumption of sovereignty over Macao in December 1999 is fuelling enthusiasm for China's mainland universities among Macao's young people, who see the takeover as offering more exciting and...
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Allegre forces French doors open
FRANCE's grandes ecoles are as "closed as clams" and will be "forced" to open up to more foreign students, education minister Claude All gre said as he unveiled the first major plans for higher...
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Albanians fight for campus
EJUP Stantovci, rector of the "alternative" Albanophone University of Pristina, and more than 100 students were arrested last week when ethnic Albanian students staged a massive protest against the...
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Victims of kidnapping in Chechenia
THE two-year-old son of a lecturer at the Chechen State University, and his mother, a lecturer at the Grozny Institute of Oil Technology, are among the latest victims of kidnapping in Chechenia....
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Studious patients
STUDENTS and lecturers at the Sligo Regional Technical College are boycotting part of a newly acquired college building that houses psychiatric patients, writes John Walshe, Dublin. The expanding...
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Private teething trouble
THREE private universities due to start up in Spain this week arefacing difficulties, with one being forced to change its name just days before launch and two more expected to be strongly criticised...
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Crime must pay up for research
Crime does not belong to the usual pile of neurotic imaginings that gnaw at our sense of wellbeing. Incomplete and imperfect, the official figures are still appalling. Theft and burglary amounted to...
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Health takes over as fees are waived
Little attention has been paid to the government's decision to move funding for students of medical subjects from the Department for Education and Employment to the Department of Health. The details...
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Superhighway no golden path
BILL GATES, chairman of Microsoft, has created a $200 million foundation to equip schools and libraries in the United States with computers and Internet connections. This week in the United Kingdom...
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Students don't need any lessons in making friends
Jennie Bristow takes exception to the structured methods by which academics seek to break the ice in early-year seminars The beginning of a new academic year - the time when everyone teaches the same...
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How do we value diversity?
Students' evaluation of the courses on offer and their willingness to pay fees for them is a guarantee against dull uniformity says Quentin Thompson Britain has a higher education system which...
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Civilised pay reviews
I AM astonished that you say in your leader (THES, October 3), that "the AUT might pause before pressing on with its campaign for a pay review body if academic staff are thereby to become in effect...
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Ee by gum, Norman
THE many and varied explanations which Anthony Lodge is reported to offer (THES, September 26) for the marked differences between the speech of executives and taxi drivers in London compared to their...
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Motivation revolution
CONTRIBUTORS to The Good Teaching Guide (THES, October 3) called for change in academic teaching practices in universities and colleges. Central to any such strategy must be an understanding of what...