US-type training urged to up output
Britain should develop an American-style mass education system if it is to match the economic productivity performance of the United States, says the National Institute of Economic and Social...
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Extra cash for top quality
Australian universities have been subject to a quality audit for the third year running but not one achieved top score in the four categories the quality committee devised this year. For the first...
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Pupils pack in to prep classes
The number of school-leavers entering preparatory classes for France's grandes ecoles jumped a spectacular 7.5 per cent this year, after two years of decreasing numbers. More than 61,000 students are...
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In defence of Cambridge excellence
During the week beginning February 12, Cambridge University is holding a postal ballot on a proposal to introduce an education studies tripos. The result should be known on February 19. Almost all...
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Youth distrust Hong Kong handover
Hong Kong's young people are expecting a bleak future under Chinese rule and have little confidence in the current British administration, an academic survey has found. The telephone survey of 1,660...
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Army man leads stricken campus
The Nigerian university where a senior administrator died late last year after a beating by junior staff is expected to reopen in March with a retired army officer appointed by government at its head...
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Grasp the levy now
This week, for the first time since last November's Budget, the vice chancellors have succeeded in attracting national attention to the funding crisis in universities. They have done so by...
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Benefits when east meets west
I am one of the many western environmental "experts" who has "jetted in" to Romania and Hungary in recent years. I share the concerns of colleagues in central and eastern Europe and the United...
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Whistle blown on Russell referees
Just before Christmas a colleague from another university asked me to be one of his nominated referees in his application for promotion. Nothing unusual in this, I have acted in such a capacity on...
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When alpha is a non-starter
Between 1983 and 1985 I held an Economic and Social Research Council project grant - the first that I had ever applied for. Since that time my research has been funded by a variety of European...
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Fair's fair in a battle for votes
The past month has seen two bitter rows about education. The most prominent, the Battle of St Olave's, was a heady cocktail of selection in schools with a gripping subplot about hypocrisy and about...
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Fees are off - official
The Government has spelled out its strong opposition to the introduction of top-up fees in a clear steer to vice chancellors. One week ahead of the vice chancellors' meeting in London the Department...
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Bricks and mortar
(Photograph) - William Buckingham, a final-year history student at Nottingham University, has won the annual Longman/History Today essay prize. A former bricklayer, Mr Buckingham's essay was on...
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Bio council chief
Raymond Baker of the Merck Sharp and Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre in Harlow is to succeed Tom Blundell as chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council when...