Institutions think local on pay deals
Many higher education institutions want a major reduction in the number of pay bargaining groups down to either a single salary structure or at most two, according to a preliminary analysis carried...
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Women in graduate studies rule roost
Women now outnumber men among Australian postgraduate students and are rapidly approaching numerical equality on higher degree courses obtained through research and coursework. Figures from the...
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Jailed rector released in Macedonia
Fadilj Sulejmani, rector of the illegal Albanian-language University of Tevoto, has been released from prison in Macedonia after payment of bail of more than Pounds 45,454. He had been in custody for...
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Student entry goes on-line
Universities are turning to computers to make the application process less time-wasting and less expensive in the United States. Students like applying "on-line" because it makes their applications...
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Key issues for Nolan
Guidance on proper behaviour seems to be spilling out of every official organisation in further and higher education. The Higher Education Funding Council has published its rules for council members...
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Skills training for PhD supervisors
Postgraduate students are quite rightly expressing their concerns about the provision made for them. As only a quarter of doctoral students achieve their PhD within five years of registration, there...
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Undergrads are Oxford's strength
Oxford is in so many ways all that a university ought to be, it has no centre. It does take teaching and research seriously, your editorial says (THES, June 16). As a United States citizen who has...
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How hostel subsidy distorts finances
Lucy Hodges in her summary (THES, June 9) of the recent World Bank report on higher education in Eastern Europe, quotes the example of Romanian student protest at hostel overcrowding in support for...
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Casualties mount in a barmy army
Few in universities will be surprised by the statement that time spent on research has declined since the 1986 funding changes. The demands of an increased teaching load, increased administration and...
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Quick fix, poor quality
The Higher Education Funding Council for England proposals for the development of quality assurance received a pretty severe mauling by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. The strong...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday. Three days before I am officially back on the payroll after maternity leave. It takes an hour to come round from a night of sleep broken by my ten-week-old son. Spend this hour over...
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God's timely revenge
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
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Safe sex, safer publishers
A study found that images in safer sex material reinforce the social construction of men as sexually active and adventurous and of women as sexually uninterested and passive. But the images were...
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Martha Elwell
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When the Earth boils
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in volcanic eruptions over the past few years. To mitigate future disasters Hazel Rymer says we need to understand and recognise the signs of an impending...