Israel's OU opens up to the future
Israel is so preoccupied with regional politics that the 20th anniversary of the founding of the country's Open University is not attracting as much attention as it might. However, peace and long...
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Postgrad fees blamed for inquity
Postgraduate study in many fields is now beyond the reach of the average Australian student because of an extraordinary increase in the number and cost of fee-paying courses, according to the Council...
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Louisiana integrates
Forty years after the historic Brown v Board of Education ruling in the United States that blacks were receiving separate and unequal schooling, states in the South are still segregating university...
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Campus bans `sex net'
Until this month students and staff at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, United States, could tap into their campus computer network for sexually explicit pictures, including bestiality and...
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Freedom under attack
It is with deep concern that we have heard of the interrogation by the police authorities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, of George Aditjondro, lecturer in sociology at the Satya Wacana Christian...
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Pension penalty clause
In January 1994 I took up a new lecturing appointment with an "old" university and applied to join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Previously I was employed by a "new" university (formerly...
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Cranfield top dog in industry funding
You report (THES, November 4) that "The biggest beneficiary of industry's largesse is Nottingham, which pushed last year's top dog, Imperial College, into second". While not wishing to detract from...
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No time to sit about
There are now well over 200,000 postgraduates in British higher education -- one in seven students. This includes a 76 per cent increase in home postgraduates alone since 1988/89. The rise has been...
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Gongs for the gang
Winners of the first Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education are published today. The prizes, set up with funds remaining from the Queen's 40th anniversary year celebrations, are...
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Just say no, in a very proper protest
The publication by the Higher Education Funding Council for England of its decisions on the assessment of teaching quality in 1995 and 1996 confronts universities with their most serious challenge...
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Try business class world wide
The major debate about the future of British academic research will not be about who should fund it. As in all other leading market economies, the overwhelming share will continue to be funded by...
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No chance to talk
Olga Wojtas (THES, October 14) reported on the findings of an industrial tribunal against the University of Glasgow which found unanimously that two members of staff had been unfairly dismissed...
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Woman's place
The question of whether attempts should be made to accommodate academic spouses (THES, November 18) when making appointments is difficult. Your academic couples were examples where both members...
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`Perks' cause resentment
The funding council's investigation of vice chancellors' salaries (THES, October 28) should be placed in the context of the wider debate over standards in British public life. I hope that HEFCE will...
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Threat posed by a third semester
I welcome Richard Jones's awareness of the problems which any move to an early September start to the academic year would cause, which underline Natfhe's policy to resist any such proposals (THES,...