Blair treads worn US path
Much has been made of the "special relationship" between the major political parties in the United States and the United Kingdom in recent years. But the contacts between the Republicans and...
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Golden boy
Alumnus to be proud of no 65 is John T. Myers, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Indiana recently rated by George magazine as one of the top-10 pork-barrelers (securer of...
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Deal struck with Mexico
Britain's burgeoning vocational education industry should enjoy a multi-million consultancy bonanza following the British Council's success in striking a Pounds 283,000 deal with the Mexican...
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Vice police rely on netiquette, not legislation
Censorship of the Internet is impossible and decisions made about the computer network must reflect this reality, according to a University of Kent academic. Duncan Langford, a computing fellow, said...
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Students to cash and carry credits
The practice of awarding academic credit to students is common in most universities and in many colleges. The award of credit has enabled institutions to recognise incremental progress towards named...
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Dole tossed in history's trashbin
Clinton's star waxes and the CIA's wanes but Blair has not yet eclipsed Thatcher in the American consciousness. Huw Richards savours the debates at the American Political Science Association...
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Workload and redundancies exercise brains
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The Dearing inquiry working group on the use of...
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Fingered green
Sir Ronald Oxburgh, rector of Imperial College and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, told in his presidential address of an elderly lady who asked him whether he...
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Cheap solution ruled out
Pressure from English university heads for a cheaper quality assessment system could lead to its disintegration, Paul Clark, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's new director of teaching...
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Referee blows whistle on war
SANJUAN. In the remote pueblos of the Guatemalan highlands people have yet to hear of the peace accords now being signed by the government and guerrilla leaders. They are still living with the terror...
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Prisoners boost figures
If Tim Cornwell (THES, August 9) had asked "how" or "why" the historically black University of Maryland Eastern Shore had most recently enrolled some 3,000 students, he might have been surprised to...
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Military bans trade unions for academics
LAGOS. Optimism about a possible settlement of Nigeria's five-month university strike was crushed at the end of August by the sudden proscription of university trade unions. The move followed a...
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Koreas wed over butter but divorced over guns
Academics come to their subjects for a variety of reasons. For Don Malatesta of Norwich University, Vermont, the stimulus came from five years of service as a United States air force pilot in Korea...
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Quality agency gets rough ride
The Higher Education Quality Council is in trouble and its chief executive is trying to bale out. But the question of how to assess quality in universities is still unresolved. The Higher Education...
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Medics take tobacco road
British American Tobacco is funding around ten medical research projects in British universities, medical schools and general practices. It is spending Pounds 500,000 a year on such projects, around...