Scientists are media shy
Australian scientists regard the popular media with suspicion, believing it trivialises and distorts their work, according to a survey of nearly 180 scientists from mainland states. Communicating via...
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Question time for taboo on tenure
The knotty issue of academic tenure - politically untouchable until now - is suddenly under the microscope in the United States. Colleges are starting to offer alternatives to tenure for professors,...
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EU sends funds for Swahili rescue
Swahili culture in Kenya, under threat from urban modernisation, is to receive Pounds 2.5 million from the European Union towards its preservation. Most of the money will be used to restore...
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Frank Nowikowski
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Well-known benefits in team playing
Martin Harris (THES April 21) concluded "sharing of information with all members of the community. . . can seemingly only be achieved in large and complex organisations in ways which are inherently...
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Part-timers key to better quality
Until recently I worked at London University as a part-time teacher of the austere-sounding English for academic purposes. I was based at a language centre which had flourished with the boom in cash-...
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Radicals react to squeeze
New Zealand universities must specialise, reduce academic tenure, and make students contribute to tuition fees to cope with funding cuts and shifting demand for courses, according Otago University...
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Give up inspection
The powers that be have a month to sort out a system of quality assurance for higher education. There is a widespread view that it cannot be done: that too many incompatible demands are being made....
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Lifelong learning at heart of debate
It is indeed rare to hear the voices of part-time students, and pleasing to see an editorial in The THES (April 21) paying explicit attention to them, now that they constitute more than 40 per cent...
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German at Goldsmiths College
We note that a post is advertised in the German department of Goldsmiths College, London. Those thinking of applying, and those asked to provide references for candidates, might recall that our...
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Martin Lewis
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How NVQs ignore the future
It is all very well for a director of standards of the Law Society (John Randall, THES April 14) to recommend NVQs, when to be a good lawyer it is only essential to conform with current practices....
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Fly to Warsaw with colleague. Met at airport by Polorbis travel courier with rail tickets. Ignore beggars at Central Station (it is getting more like London every day), and board Pieniny...
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False dichotomy for Asia
Perhaps the emergence of democracy in East Asia is not so different from the western experience during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In both cases, "social changes induced by rapid economic...
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Admission impossible
Californians are anxious these days. Calamities of Biblical proportions bedevil the state. The worst flooding in memory occurred this year, the worst fires are but yesterday and will return tomorrow...