France's Pacific ambition
The French University of the Pacific, split between two sites nearly 5,000 kilometres apart, is to become two establishments in a move that will bring greater freedom from French control. The French...
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Minister calls for admin cost cuts
THE AUSTRALIAN government is to insist that universities be made more accountable through the use of performance indicators and may require students to take a final-year test of basic abilities....
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Ministry opposes privatisation
JAPAN's higher education ministry has resolved to put every possible obstacle in the path of plans to privatise the top national universities. The ministry, Monbusho, is pushing plans to make...
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Japan's overdue overhaul
British academics who need cheering up about the state of our universities might glance nine time zones to the east. There, Japan is grappling with university problems that would make our hardest-...
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Bring many minds to bear on policy
A year into the Labour administration there is still a sense of excitement for academics interested in public policy. It arises from a feeling that the government's agenda is not yet fully set, a...
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Agencies hold regional key
WITH a hint of irony, perhaps, the Dearing committee report, in its chapter on the local and regional roles of higher education, concluded that, compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, "in...
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Sense and sexuality
Mike Weaver suggests that the Mapplethorpe book be confined to a reserve bookroom, calling for prudence in the handling of what he calls "pornography" and saying that it ought to be kept away from...
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Habgood, have faith
Apropos Dr Hagbood's comments on the implausibility of the Exodus (Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, THES, April 24): it is true that a column of two million people, two abreast, at...
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Stressing the irrelevant
The results of the Association of University Teachers stress survey (THES, May 1) confirm the futility of these exercises and their role in trivialising the problems faced by many staff in higher...
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Researchers are assets, not burdens
JAMES Bowen (THES, Letters, April 24) displays the sort of views that many of us had hoped had expired with the demise of the previous government. He mistakenly treats individual research grants as...
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Views of a film-maker
I HAVE read the review of my book Indian Popular Cinema (co-authored with Wimal Dissanayake) with mixed feelings (THES, April 10). Nasreen Munni Kabbir's comments have more to do with a book on...
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of a pay rise
Michael Bett outlines the factors that will be considered by the independent committee reporting on academics' pay and conditions Most readers of The THES will have heard that an independent...
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Tax credits
THE original version of my assessment of Labour's first year (THES,May 1) made clear that the provision of choice as to how the working family tax credit will be paid to couples is a far from ideal...
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Invest in youth or pay Thatcher's price
Some of us, with only a small tongue in cheek, believe that what happens in student political caucuses today will have a direct impact on national politics in 20 years' time. The National Union of...
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Notes on a divided island
Developments in Northern Ireland have largely obscured a recent diplomatic setback for the Republic of Cyprus. Last month, Richard Holbrooke, the United States presidential emissary to Cyprus and the...