Teacher fight ahead
University-based teacher training is in jeopardy following the Government's announcement that it intends to set course content. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has warned that plans...
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U-turn on the Budget
The Government is to reconsider the higher education Budget cuts announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last November. In the first public acknowledgement that the Budget dealt too harshly with...
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Tongues tied
Linguistic rights are closely linked to civil rights. A newly signed declaration should go some way towards their preservation. Ned Thomas reports. Where else could you meet an Arawak-speaker from...
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Anger at a university that's doubled the pain
Your front-page article on redundancies (THES, June 14), correctly reports the anger felt by academic staff at South Bank University at the proposal to axe at least 84 lecturing posts. This...
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Paper wars turn Lot's Wife to pillar of salt
Some of Australia's oldest and, at times, most notorious university student newspapers are being forced to close. Student newspapers have been challenging authority and questioning government...
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Franchise row rages at Swansea
A fierce battle over the standard of overseas franchise courses is being fought between senior managers and quality assurance officials at Swansea Institute of Higher Education. Senior managers at...
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South Bank makes lecturers redundant
One seventh of all full-time academic posts at London's South Bank University are to be axed, including the first compulsory redundancies to hit the university sector. Almost half of the 84 axed...
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When the living is wheezy
Scientists now believe a western lifestyle is to blame for the increase in asthma. Asthma goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks when Hippocrates coined the term. But in those days the condition...
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Tooled up: Jonathan Mills
(Photograph) - Tooled up: Jonathan Mills, a BA Hons industrial design student at Hallam University, displays a DIY power drill - part of his degree show
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English rules the waves
Thirty years ago, it would have been difficult to travel around Western Europe speaking only English. This is not true today. In fact, the standard of English among the educated in some of these...
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Chinese magic works with students
The number of foreigners studying in China has trebled since 1991 to more than 37,000, according to the State Education Commission. Of these, 4,100 students from 147 countries were granted Chinese...
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OU project shows how 'Cezanne' knits together
How a concept such as "Cezanne" is transformed into a knitting pattern is the subject of a project just launched by the Open University. Researchers aim to find out where designers get their...
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Peace studies: PLO leader Yasser Arafat
(Photograph) - Peace studies: PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the Oxford Union this week, attracting the biggest audience of the year so far. He reserved judgement on Binyamin Netanyahu, who won...
