Solar sauna set to multiply
Throughout the icy temperatures of this winter, there has been a small haven of warmth in Scottish higher education. Tariq Muneer, lecturer in energy engineering at Napier University, has designed a...
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China loosens state grip on graduate job market
This year China will see a total of 8.7 million higher education students, of which 8.3 million will be studying at first degree, and 360,000 at postgraduate level. University and college graduates...
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Black staff reject Wits verdict
An inquiry by a top South African lawyer has cleared 13 senior academics at the University of Wi****ersrand of allegations of misconduct levelled against them by William Malegapuru Makgoba, the...
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Review as a mug's game
Having just engaged the professional services of a solicitor at Pounds 125 per hour, the absurd position that academics who publish in professional journals have procured for themselves was brought...
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You can't revive a corpse
We recognise that reductions on this scale and suddenness are likely to cause difficulties for institutions," the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has said. The...
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Cut off at the pass
Sir Ron Dearing this week describes the Robbins principle that "courses of higher education should be available to all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to...
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Invited guest editor
Dan Keohane's full and favourable review (THES, February 23) of the special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies ("A state of truce: Northern Ireland after 25 years of war" ERS, October 1995), did not...
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Firm stand on union changes
Given the importance of the issues raised in "Students wary of plan to turn union into firm" (THES, February 23), I should like to clarify some aspects relating to the recommendation that the...
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Disbenefit in disunity
Those correspondents from the Association of University Teachers who have been confused by the Natfhe policy in higher education (Michael Leat et al, and Alan Carr, THES, March 1) should have paid...
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Disbelief in disunity
It would be unfair and disappointing to the ordinary members of Natfhe and the AUT to end the debate in these columns on such a note of bitter division. Each organisation should cease to defend its...
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The 30-year call for help
A protest by students and teachers at France's prestigious oriental languages institute is the latest twist in a long-running saga. Since 1964, its staff and pupils have been calling for more space...
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Fire-bombs and fights scar election run-up
As general elections on April 21 draw closer, political tension is mounting among Italian student groups. At Rome's La Sapienza University, a lecturer's home was fire-bombed and there have been...
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Don's diary
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
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Vile bodies
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...