Count on it
Inefficient administration can have its benefits. Overheard recently on one South African university campus was the following exchange: "Aren't you worried about compulsory redundancies, given the...
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Nuclear family
Congratulations to a bunch of particle physicists from 34 institutes who published a major paper on quarks and have now managed to amass one citation for every institution, according to Science Watch...
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Sculptured form
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London
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Cleanliness gets closer to costliness
A detailed study of household hygiene habits has led economists from Leicester University to predict that domestic water use in south and eastern England will rise by an average 40 per cent over the...
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Guardian of OU ethos
A chance meeting with Michael Young, founder of the Open University, at the University of Botswana's extra-mural department in 1975 sealed the fate of Mary Thorpe, who is the new and first female...
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Getting poorer by degrees
Do Scottish students drop out or not take up courses because of hardship or lack of support? The THES asked some. A Scottish helpline to match Highers results against course vacancies has revealed...
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Bringing up baby to avoid cot death
Preventing cot death is the aim of a Pounds 450,000 specialist unit established at Bristol University's Institute of Child Health. Supported by The Foundation for Study of Infant Death and the Anne...
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Pasqua's private problems
France's first private "university" - the brainchild of former interior minister Charles Pasqua - opens on September 4 for just 100 to 200 students after an investment of Fr1.2 billion (Pounds 156...
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Outrage at shoplifting guide
It is hard to say whether Rabelais would have been amused. Certainly no one in authority was when the editors of a La Trobe University student newspaper named after the great French satirist...
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Volcano's early warning
Lucia Civetta lives in something approaching heaven for a vulcanologist. A lecturer in geology and vulcanology at Naples University, she is also the director of the Vesuvius Observatory, which...
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Students threaten 'angry autumn'
Germany's "minister for the future" has detailed his plans to shift education funds into research and technology - and unleashed a new storm of controversy about the future financing of higher...
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Balkan reality
Will Podmore's letter "Let the Yugoslavs fight their civil war" (THES, August 25) repeated common myths and failed to describe the reality of the conflict in the Balkans. He asked important questions...
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Guilty of science on Brent Spar
Greenpeace's Sue Mayer (THES, August 25) chose to misinterpret some of my written words and to quote others out of context. In my Brent Spar article (THES, August 11) I did not write that "dumping...
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Go tell it to the employees
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...
