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...
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Scots funding formula
John Sizer of SHEFC wants to know if there is a case for treating the same research rankings differently depending on the subject. But he has not told us what the funding councils are doing to ensure...
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Rejected candidate loses court bid for place
University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow their entry criteria following a court ruling this week. Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow...
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Grey network is proposed
Research into ageing is uncoordinated, underfunded and sometimes duplicated, say the proponents of a scheme to set up a national centre for ageing research. The solution is to start a network to...
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Medics' malaise
The latest British Medical Association survey of medical students' finances reveals record debt levels, with an average debt of Pounds 3,696, almost 30 per cent higher than last year. The average...
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Part-time pay off
More than 250 part-time lecturers have won a total Pounds 100,000 for unfair dismissal or redundancy compensation since the House of Lords ruled last year that they had the right to pursue such...
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Millennium mark up
The Scottish Office this week announced upgraded entry requirements for teacher education courses from the academic year 2000/01. Entrants to primary teacher education courses will need a standard...
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Lords decide contract staff have equal rights
A House of Lords probe into university scientists' careers has concluded that contract research staff should have the same status and rights as established colleagues of equivalent rank. The plight...
