Choice of freedom or mediocrity
Nineteen ninety-six is going to be the year when the universities either break for freedom or settle for tutelage and mediocrity. Graeme Davies, lately chief executive of the Higher Education Funding...
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Ruttgers closes on student loan interest bill
German education minister Jurgen Ruttgers's controversial plan to charge interest on student loans has moved a step closer to victory after being accepted by the federal cabinet. The reform would...
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English becomes passport to entry
Would-be students at Auckland University may have to prove their competence in English language before they can enrol. The university has been concerned for some time about the standard of English of...
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Strike threat sets up national talks
A threatened industrial dispute at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen is likely to precipitate national talks on conditions of service next month. The University Lecturers' Association of the...
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Sussex council attacks registrar job deal
Council members at Sussex University have rebuked a committee chaired by the vice chancellor for agreeing to spend Pounds 150,000 on a house for the incoming registrar without consulting the...
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Probe of the Yule slog
Christmas can be lonely for overseas students but a new survey hopes to make it happier, Tony Tysome reports. The council for international education, UKCOSA, is planning to launch a national survey...
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North-east pride
A short story competition in honour of Booker prize-winner Pat Barker has been announced at New College Durham. The Pat Barker prize is designed to discover a new generation of writers from the...
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Merger remit
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Further Education Funding Council have set up a joint committee to consider issues likely to arise from mergers between institutions in the...
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Bluffer's guide to Christmas lecturing
There is nothing as terrifying in all the academic world, says one scientist; it is like going to the guillotine in a cart that you cannot stop, says another. Agreeing to give the Royal Institution...
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Cold war resurfaces between anthropologists
British academics have been accused of exhibiting "the inertia of the cold war mentality" by criticising their Russian colleagues. The council of the Royal Anthropological Institute passed a...
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Sky light
(Photograph) - Sky light: with gripping new observations coming in from space probes such as Hubble, Galileo, Clementine and Ulysses, Dennis Ashton, director of the Star Centre, just opened at...
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Dropouts prompt inquiry
The English funding council is launching a study to find out if more students are dropping out of degree courses. It has put details of a research study out to tender and bids have to be in by...
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Events
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. The University of Hertfordshire has organised an environmental education conference on January 11-12 focussing on: European Union facilitating programmes; curriculum...
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
