Time flies when you're trying to reform
Western European, particularly British, university involvement in the transition process in eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union has been one of the minor success stories in an...
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A journey to the PhD hierarchy
Alan Thomson's review of the Council for Graduate Education's report, The Award of the Degree of PhD on the Basis of Published Work in the UK, (THES, September ) was accurate on the danger to the...
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Here beginneth the first lesson...
What does a theologian do when two eminent scientists dismiss his faith as a symptom of psychological insecurity? Pray for their souls or take issue with their reasoning? Here Keith Ward opts for the...
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Net charges put free access out to tender
Australian universities expect a fourfold increase over the next three years in the cost of providing staff and students with access to the Internet. Several have restricted student access or made...
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Safe feedstuff research delayed by BSE costs
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is proposing to cut funding for research aimed at creating natural and safe feedstuff for cattle and sheep to help pay for the extra costs of dealing with...
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New FEFC chief
A former higher education assessment director is to become the new chief inspector of the Further Education Funding Council. Jim Donaldson, chief inspector of schools at the Scottish Office with...
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Hi-tec hitch
Due to a technical fault, figures for the total first-degree student population in my article were incorrect (THES, September ). The number of first-degree students for 1994/95 was 995,764 with the...
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Silver tongue
Lecturers' unions requested a generous pinch of salt to accompany the news that Roger Ward, new chief executive of the Association of Colleges, was leaving behind his past as a bruising negotiator to...
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Militant in health cash plea
Denis Goldberg, former sabotage commander of the African National Congress, now director of a charity aiding reconstruction and development in South Africa, is courteous, genial and persuasive. "Even...
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National holiday celebrates teachers
Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov has proclaimed a new national holiday to be celebrated on October 1. The decree creating "Teachers and Instructors Day" evidently came too late for this year. The...
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End of tenure, start of tender
Higher education should be restructured like the NHS so that self-employed academics submit bids to teach university courses. David Albury explains. Building on a study of the future and management...
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New! Improved formula!
Feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding braves the din of a London launderette to explain to Gail Vines why she thinks modern science would be much improved by incorporating other cultural...
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Soton students are thrown a lifeline
Portsmouth University is to bail out Southampton Institute of Higher Education by taking on MBA students cast adrift by its decision last week to close the loss-making specialist maritime campus in...
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Nobel wins buck Britain
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry came home this week with Sir Harold Kroto of Sussex University winning the award for the discovery of a remarkable form of carbon whose structure matches the pattern of...
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Smoked out
Men who never smoke have a 78 per cent chance of living to the age of 73, while lifelong male smokers have only a 43 per cent chance, according to a 15-year follow-up study of 7,735 British middle-...