Don's Diary
MONDAY. Phone rings. Could I come to the United States ambassador's residence on Wednesday for a meeting with Hillary Clinton? It will be coffee, cookies and a two-hour discussion of the problems...
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The learning business
Interest in particular aspects of management is fluctuating with the general climate. It almost concurs with the business cycle. Over the past decades, various themes have been in high demand on the...
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Fingers burned
When I talked to your reporter about the current Alfred/Asser dispute (THES, December 8), I asked that I be not quoted. I deplore the fact that I was in fact quoted, not once but twice. The effect is...
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When going gets tough
Don Foster MP, Liberal Democrat education spokesman, wrote to university vice chancellors and principals on October 30 enclosing a survey based on research he had conducted over the summer on levels...
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Binary code is on the wall
Books are too old-fashioned for today's students so let's give them computers instead, argues Vincent Mitchell. How many times do you hear academics complaining about the difficulty of persuading...
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New universities to ease crowding
The Sri Lankan government is to establish three new universities to increase the student intake to 15,000 per year. They will be at Anuradhapura, Ampara and Ratnapura. New faculties are also to open...
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Oil giant bids for campus
Corporations and multinationals can apply for licenses to set up private universities in Malaysia early in 1996, once legislation has been passed. Applications will be considered immediately after...
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Sporting types called to account
The United States education department, in a move that threatens to fire up the long-running controversy over sexism in sports, is to require colleges and universities to account publicly for what...
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Colleges face 15 per cent cuts
Universities in Canada's most populous province have been dealt a serious blow to their budgets by funding cuts of 15 per cent announced by the Ontario government. The Council of Ontario Universities...
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Ideas to prevent cultural collision
Olga Wotjas reports from the Society for Research into Higher Education at Heriot-Watt University. British academics may mistake politeness and respect from overseas students as shiftiness and...
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All made-up
(Photograph) - All made-up: students and staff on the hair and beauty course at Chesterfield College raised money for charity by making up models.
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Number's up
Alumni to be proud of no 24: Peter Davis, the National Lottery regulator, described by one paper last year as a certainty for a knighthood at the end of his term of office, and by himself as "a...
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Remembered hills
As snowstorms sweep the country, Aberdeen University is turning its thoughts to June 25, when Scotland was recorded the hottest country in Europe. That day, more than 200 teams, involving 1,500...
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Acronym beef
The curse of the recurring acronym struck again this week with the exam-watchers of the Schools Examination and Assessment Council apparently implicated in the row over beef. The thought that there...
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Drink and derive
To cultivate the research ethos at the University of Hertfordshire a programme "The effect of alcohol on student-supervisor relationships" has been launched by the school of engineering's research...