Dismay at peaceline delay
The University of Ulster has voiced dismay at the Government's failure to announce a go-ahead for the much vaunted peaceline campus in West Belfast. The university warned that vital opportunities to...
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Varnish polishes off plaque
The Scots' notorious sweet tooth appears to be as decayed as ever among the latest batch of adolescents, with Dundee University's dental health services research unit reporting that the state of 12-...
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Albania puts plants on map
Vast tracts of Albanian landscape, whose plant life has been hidden for decades, are at last being explored with the help of a scientists from the United Kingdom. John Rodwell, of the Unit of...
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Graham Jarvis
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How to get the dressing right
If your are seriously wounded in an accident, your chances of a quick recovery may depend on which brand of dressing your surgeon happens to find in the cupboard. Until now, there has been little...
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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Vietnam vets claim anti-war backlash
Twenty years after the war ended, Vietnam veterans are complaining that they have been denied jobs in universities in the United States because those in charge of higher education never served in the...
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Endangered genes go to the bank
Mounting anger and frustration at the lack of progress in pay talks has brought staff at Victoria University of Wellington to the brink of what could be New Zealand's first academic strike. The...
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Neglected and patronised
The celebration of adult learners' week next week, and VE Day this week, are well-timed. The generation that fought the Second World War and then voted in a Labour government and a welfare state are...
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John Morgan and Daisy Wyatt
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Students set their pace on funding policy
I was dismayed to read your front-page story "Follow my Labour" (THES, May 5). Not only are issues in the article confused, I am inclined to believe that the text was conveniently put together to fit...
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Build on expertise of bodies
It is to be hoped that the subtle and sensitive negotiations aiming to streamline the national approach to quality assurance are concluded quickly, and in such a way as to minimise the expenditure of...
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All you need is love
Claire Sanders reports on some blunt advice from Europe, particularly the Netherlands. As the assessors from the funding council and the auditors from the quality council poke and probe their way...
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US backs apartheid protesters
The American embassy in Tokyo has backed protests by foreign teachers at Japanese state universities against what they claim are "systematic dismissals" of foreign academics over a certain age and "...
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Bring those accountable to book
Alfred Morris proposes a new model for quality in higher education. Tim Boswell's weary suggestion that in the absence of agreement between the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the...