Otago staff accept voluntary pay-offs
THE University of Otago is to lose 89 staff through voluntary redundancies this year as it grapples with a projected NZ$7 million (Pounds 3 million) budget deficit. The job losses are the result of a...
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Emigres find jobs in France
Since 1992 nearly 1,000 academics have left Algeria to settle in France. Some fled direct terrorist threats while others preferred to "move away for a while until the situation calms down". Even in...
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Algerian strikers stay out
MANY strike-hit universities in Algeria failed to reopen in the New Year despite triumphant claims by the authorities of a "progressive resumption of work". Since the end of October most universities...
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Lecturers' union leader sacked in dispute
EIGHT Nigerian university lecturers who were active in the six-month strike that ended in September have been sacked and evicted from their tied accommodation. The lecturers, including Assisi Asobie...
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Minister dilutes threat to freedom
IRISH minister Niamh Bhreathnach has tabled over 100 amendments to her heavily criticised universities' bill. The amendments take up 16 pages, more than half the length of the original bill. They...
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Young designers taste haute couture
FRENCH luxury goods companies have launched two projects aimed at finding talented students who can bring new ideas to a sector steeped in tradition. The 75 fashion houses, jewellers, perfume and...
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The learning tower of Pisa
ITALY's state university system is well known for its inefficiency, its administrative chaos and its erratic academic standards. Although there are undoubtedly faculties where high standards are...
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Italy faces discrimination rap
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take new action against Italy over alleged job discrimination against foreign language lecturers. The commission said it had received representations from lecturers and...
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Fledgling state sees its wings cut
THREE years after South Africa's first democratic elections, the redistribution of higher education funds from historically privileged to disadvantaged universities and technikons is to begin in...
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Misleading search for twelve first-division players
John Brooks argues that all universities must decide how best to balance the teaching research divide The great strength of the higher education system is its ability to evolve to meet both national...
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Pros and cons of a super league
Frank Webster, below, believes Britain would benefit from creating a cluster of research universities to which 5-star departments could transfer. There are more than 100 higher education institutions...
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The age of rights
JOHN GRAY's less than supportive review of Norberto Bobbio's Left and Right: The significance of a political distinction (THES, November 15) makes errors of omission and emphasis. Two-thirds of his...
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Ignorance of funders
WE NOTE and support the chorus of criticism over the classification of geography and psychology as "classroom-based" disciplines (THES, December 20). Like them, archaeology is believed to have been...
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Sexism at Christmas
IN A year when some women will be celebrating their first Christmas as ordained priests, you offer us an entirely male view of Christmas (THES, December 20). If we must have such dubious pieces at...
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Lottery rationale
DIANA GARNHAM makes a number of important points about the grants recently announced by the National Lottery Charities Board for medical research charities (THES, December 20). The board can indeed...