Students angle for blue-chip jobs
A growing number of Japanese undergraduates are taking an extra year to complete their degree courses in the hope of being headhunted for top jobs. Around 15 per cent of them now extend their study...
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Deja VU
Well-known names in educationtechnology took part in an online conference on the "virtual university", organised by Anne Forster and Clark Quinn of the University of New South Wales to coincide with...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kicking up the dust in a chaotic storehouse
Researchers are collaborating to bring order to the chaos of the Web. People find things on the network in different ways. The popular search engines - Alta Vista, Lycos, and so on - are heavily used...
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California plans super-institution
California will not participate in the Western Governors' University planned by a consortium of states. It will develop plans for a super-institution using the Internet and other emerging...
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Competence fatigue
Competence, like motherhood, is hard to be against. Of course people should be competent to carry out the job they hold. A cook must be able to cook, a professor of Greek to read Greek. So far so...
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Minister wages war on mega-campuses
The coming year should see radical changes for Italy's state university system. Luigi Berlinguer, minister for schools, universities and scientific research since April, has warned that the system is...