Pounds 10m cuts for Israeli science
Israel's chief scientist Shooky Gleitman is this week trying to come to terms with a Pounds 10 million reduction in the level of government support provided for his office by 1997. The cuts are part...
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A fair old state to be in
There is little doubt that at the end of the 20th century, the relationship between governments and institutions of higher education is undergoing fundamental change. States and universities are...
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For all creatures great and small
I agree with Roger Scruton on some things - the absurdity of much modern art, for example - but when he deals with the subject of animal rights he is guilty of an absurdity of his own (THES, June 28...
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German historians win battle of quills
Leading historians involved in a prestigious multi-volume history of Germany have won their battle to remove the controversial ninth volume on the Nazi period from the series just six months after it...
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Highlands seeks chief
The University of the Highlands and Islands project has this week advertised for a chief executive to steer the project to fruition. Applications for the Pounds 55,000 post, advertised in today's...
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Ace tennis players served with own league
The creation of a premier tennis league in British student sport has initiated changes which could eventually revolutionise its highest levels. The decision of the British Universities Sports...
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Nuclear threat to volcano
A French vulcanologist has warned that more nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific could cause the collapse of a flank of the extinct underwater volcano, leading to a big release of...
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Plea to stop Sarajevo brain drain
A Bosnian World University Service official has made an urgent plea to step up aid for Sarajevo University. Vesna Besirevic, who heads WUS Sarajevo office, is visiting countries in western Europe...
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Guaranteed loans hitch
Proposals for a national student aid scheme in South Africa - targeting at least 70,000 students and costing between R600 million and R700 million (Pounds 165-Pounds 192 million) in its first year -...
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British PhDs runners up in cost league
Fees charged by United Kingdom universities for foreign students undertaking postgraduate courses tend to be higher than those of the UK's main competitors in Asia, according to an international...
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Research Summer
As teaching ends, the THES will, as in previous years, be giving special attention to the research community during the summer. As part of this programme, the heads of the research councils will each...
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Fees paid for family perk set for chop
One of the great perks of being a professor in the United States is that your offspring are able to receive cut-rate or sometimes free tuition not only at the institution where you are teaching but...
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Fixed-term no freedom
It is not THES policy to carry anonymous articles. Academic life depends for its vitality on robust exchange of views, opinions, information and ideas without fear or favour and we expect people to...
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Merger at the ministry
As an ex-DFE official who supported many of Geoffrey Holland's ideas about the relationship between education and employment, perhaps I might enter the debate between him and Mary Warnock (THES, July...
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Merger at the ministry
One doesn't have to be a member of the great and the good to agree with Baroness Warnock's analysis of the confusion between education and training. When the former polytechnics became universities...