Skulking admiration
International misunderstandings No. 357: an eastern European academic, visiting Edinburgh for a higher education conference, congratulated his hosts on the attractiveness of the city's prostitutes....
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Degree critic faces legal action
A lecturer who circulated criticisms of business degree programmes franchised in Singapore by a British university is facing legal action. The Management Development Institute of Singapore terminated...
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Beyond their Ken
(Photograph) - Labour MPs Ken Livingstone and Tony Benn have lent their weight to a student campaign of opposition to tuition fees. Mr Livingstone said that to impose fees "would create a two-tier...
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Japan faces number crunching future
World market success is forcing a once tightly knit nation to unwind. Tony Tysome takes a look Leaders of Japanese higher education are fighting to avert a financial and educational crisis they fear...
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Modules stir mixed reception
universities and colleges are increasingly adopting modularisation - the movement now involves around 90 per cent of the sector - but the way it is being introduced is causing resentment among staff...
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'Skewed' Ofsted reading report slammed
University of London academics who shot holes in a report on children's reading standards by the Office for Standards in Education say the organisation needs a few basic lessons in research technique...
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Sir Ron tells colleges: you must sell yourselves
The vast majority of employers still need convincing that university graduates are worth hiring, Sir Ron Dearing said this week. Sir Ron, giving details of the early progress of his higher education...
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The theatre with quite a good library attached
A missed train and a Canadian academic's passion for the Elizabethan theatre have brought a unique collection of 3,000 books on the Shakespearean theatre to London's Globe complex. In 1969 Don Rowan...
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National pay deals `at an end'
Universities and colleges attempting to avert an all-out strike over pay are offering staff enhanced local settlements, sparking claims that the national bargaining structure is finished. Cracks in...
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Techno triumphs
Eight further education colleges have received awards totalling Pounds 200,000 for projects using new teaching and learning technologies. Bilston Community College, Bromley College, City College...
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Students fall victim to French law
Research students arriving on exchange schemes as English assistants at Nanterre University have fallen foul of tough French immigration laws. Ten PhD students of United States, Canadian, Indian and...
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Simon Saunders of Coventry University
(Photograph) - Simon Saunders of Coventry University shows off the "ultimate car" for the year 2096 as envisaged by his transport design students. The vehicle, created in collaboration with design...
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Modules to modernity
Initial teacher training is in a mess, in part because politicians abolished quality control. Michael Barber proposes a fresh route to rigour and relevance. Most of the 10,000 new entrants to the...
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The awful choice of Clinton or ...
Honestly, it will be very hard for me to vote for Clinton. I voted for him in 1992 (the first time I voted for a presidential winner). However, his presidency has been seriously disappointing. Though...