A-level madness
The blow finally fell on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press office last week. No, nothing to do with downsizing or rationalisation. Their real fear had always been a slow news...
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On their knees
(Photograph) - On their knees: police order students demanding reunification of North and South Korea to kneel in submission after a nine-day confrontation ended violently when police stormed the...
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Welsh wizardry grows
Three new research centres at the University of Wales, Bangor, have been recognised as centres of expertise by the Welsh Development Agency, part of a network of such centres springing up across...
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Dundee wins grant
Dundee University's department of biochemistry, which recently held a topping out ceremony for its Pounds 12 million Wellcome Trust Building, has won a Pounds 4.5 million grant from the Medical...
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Divorce grounds high-fliers
Children from single-parent homes are losing out in the US college stakes. Tim Cornwell reports Children born in the late 1970s, when divorce rates in the United States reached their current level of...
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Namibia buries the corpse of apartheid
Windhoek. There is a camaraderie at the University of Namibia that is a rare commodity on campuses. It may have something to do with size - fewer than 4,000 students are enrolled here - or to do with...
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Open University boss sounds cost alarm
Singapore. India can offer distance education at one-fiftieth of the cost of United Kingdom Open University cour- ses, the OU's vice chancellor Sir John Daniel has warned. Sir John questioned the...
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In the shadow of Big Sister
David Walker reports on the growing pains of men's studies. What a state we heterosexual men are in. Women and gay men have, intellectually at least, got their acts together. There is a vast...
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Figaro makes return to Nigeria
The Trenchard Hall, named after a pioneer British university administrator, is acquiring a renewed reputation for the return of classical music to the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Each...
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Physicist's credentials
I apologise for the lateness of my response to Helmut Rechenberg's review of my book Hitler's Uranium Club (THES, January 26). I wish to comment only on the last paragraph. "Bernstein criticises and...
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Karbovantsy cuts hit the Ukraine
Ukraine has announced major cuts in higher education following a Presidential decision to reduce the state wage bill. The country's post-Soviet economic crisis has meant that government employees,...
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Maths data 15 years out of date
David Reynolds and Shaun Farrell, authors of the recent OFSTED report Worlds Apart? (THES, August 9), are quoted as saying that "There is nothing to support those who would criticise maths and...
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NUS calls for reform of entrance procedures
The National Union of Students has called for reform of the university applications and admissions system amid a mad scramble for places after this year's A-level results. The NUS believes that the...