'Nous' test faces test of credibility
The launch next month of the Graduate Employability Test will meet with much scepticism from educationists, higher education careers services and graduate employers, it has emerged. The test's...
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Trade unionists branded as campus security risk
LECTURERS who led the banned Academic Staff of Universities have been labelled "security risks" on the two campuses of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka. The authorities have used the term to...
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Suspect hair, clear vision
Simon Targett talks to an ex-Cabinet minister who is bright enough to teach at Harvard, Shirley Williams. House of Lords. Peers' entrance. An odd place to meet a professor of elective politics, you...
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Revamp for NVQ mooted
A "NEW and improved" model for the much-criticised National Vocational Qualification is in the pipeline to bolster the flagging qualification. The revamp is expected next spring in line with the...
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English's hold on Asians
REPORTS of the importance of English are commonplace. But the recent spate of news about English in Asia begs attention. In Hong Kong the University Grants Committee has proposed tougher English...
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More means less in Brownspeak
Today the higher education unions meet to decide whether they should collectively accept the pay offers now on the table. As The THES went to press it looked likely that most would. The Association...
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Glaxo-Wellcome shifts overseas
A LEADING British pharmaceutical company now undertakes more than five times as much university collaborative research overseas as it did eight years ago. Poor infrastructure in British institutions...
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Malays get tough on agents
Malaysia has set out its terms for overseas universities seeking to operate through local colleges. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak told foreign universities not to treat local...
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Quality of privacy is strained
You suggest (Opinion, THES, June 14) that departmental reviews involving outside peers have emerged as the most effective means of assessing and enhancing quality and that "within the privacy of such...
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Degrees in a class of their own
Mass higher education calls for a rethink of the honours classifications, argues Peter Wright A decade or so ago critics of British education sometimes described the system as a "pyramid of failure...
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Physics axed
The University of East Anglia has voted to axe its physics degree blaming falling student numbers. The university's senate last week approved the closure of undergraduate courses with no new students...
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Retirements go ahead
LECTURING and teaching unions have welcomed a Government "climbdown" over attempts to block early retirements prior to the controversial reform of the Teachers Superannuation Scheme. The Association...
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Growing colleges get cash jitters
A GOVERNMENT threat to tear up an open cheque signed to encourage college growth has rocked further education. If it goes ahead, colleges will have to find Pounds 84 million to pay for extra students...
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Food facts for Europe
THE ROBERT Gordon University in Aberdeen is heading a Pounds 1 million European Union project to build a database that will help improve food quality and food safety. Biophysicist Paul Nesvadba of...