Teacher knows best
Talk about education inevitably incites disagreement and debate. But there is one statement I make which consistently generates approval and consensus: "I never really know something until I have...
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17 January 2003
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Deakin student quits after victimisation claim
A 34-year-old Englishman who made national headlines in Australia last year after threatening to take Deakin University to the Trade Practices Commission for misleading advertising, has quit his...
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Keating praises 'success' of education system
Australia's unique Higher Education Contribution Scheme has been one of the great participatory and democratic reforms of the federal Labor government, according to Prime Minister Paul Keating,...
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Pension claims hit by delays
Thousands of part-time lecturers and other staff in old universities will have to wait until the autumn to know if they can claim pension rights backdated to 1976. The delay follows the decision of a...
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7 July 1997
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28 February 2013
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Research adds spice to university menu
Two weeks ago (THES, October 14), we had a vice chancellor of a new university telling us that universities were about teaching and learning. Full stop. Last week, a pro vice chancellor asserts that...
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Ministry probes cost of hip surgery
The Department of Health has awarded Pounds 250,000 to medical researchers at Leicester University to carry out a two-year investigation into the popular but costly hip replacement operation. Around...
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Art of the possible rules imitations of the mind
David Salt falls into the same trap as Roger Penrose when attempting to understand connectionist software, when he suggests that the algorithms are a limitation to computer systems simulating the...
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Japan aims for original ideas
JAPANESE prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has announced an overhaul of the country's troubled education system including attempts to introduce greater diversity by giving universities more freedom to...
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Mission to serve
Perish the sexist thought that Alexandra Burslem, soon to become Britain's seventh female university vice chancellor, will spend an overly long amount of time worrying about the dress-code for her...
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Opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building
(Photograph) - Round trip: architect Richard Brearley puts Gillian Shephard, the Education and Employment Secretary, in the picture on the official opening tour of the Elizabeth Fry building at the...
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Maths reform irks critics
THE School Curriculum and Assessment Authority has largely ignored its own 15-month investigation into maths A-level standards by rushing through the widely condemned new maths syllabus, according to...