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...
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Student loans fraud inquiry
The Serious Fraud Office has been called in by New Zealand's education ministry to investigate the theft of up to NZ$750,000 (Pounds 306,000) in student loans. The referral came after preliminary...
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`I think we went too fast'
"I think we went too fast," says Jordi Berrio, vice rector of academic affairs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. This modern campus university of 34,000 students was one of the first to...
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'A system which eliminates people'
"I think the ideas are good, but it is going very fast. In the long term maybe it will work, but right now it doesn't," says Teresa Le"n, a history student at the University Rovira y Virgili in...
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Hong Kong heaven for academics
Huw Richards's report on The THES-sponsored conference about the future of Hong Kong (THES, March 24) provided little about the kind of future awaiting those planning to remain here post-1997,...
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Vice chancellors' pay
The publication of the league table listing vice chancellors' salaries (THES, March 24) is a reflection of the public expectation of openness about pay for the most senior people in both the public...
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Catching the wave of opportunity
The Council for Industry and Higher Education publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
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'Silent sociologists' speak up
Sociologists are accustomed to periodic journalistic attacks but Walker's article is abstruse, rambling and hopelessly ill-informed. But his rhetorical blast at Anthony Giddens is surely enough to...
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Teacher knows best
Talk about education inevitably incites disagreement and debate. But there is one statement I make which consistently generates approval and consensus: "I never really know something until I have...
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Big universe, little men
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
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The second sex
Gerard McCrum argues that women from state schools are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. Why do men dominate the finals lists at both Oxford and Cambridge, scoring...