The sister of a faculty member at the University of Washington recently ran a search on his name on the World Wide Web. The first thing that came up was his student ratings - the spot verdicts passed...
UNIVERSITY presses are rejecting scholarly works with poor sales prospects in the United States and urging academics to write in a more popular style. This has left aspiring young professors in...
Universities in Australia will be forced to recruit thousands of fee-paying students at home and overseas over the next three years to make up for funding cuts. An education department report for the...
CANADIAN university students are returning to lectures after weathering the worst ice storm to hit the country in 150 years. Three weeks ago, five days of rain coupled with below-freezing...
Italy's National Research Council is under attack for being top-heavy, wasteful, insufficiently productive and too centralised. A radical reform of the council, which controls research centres...
THE House of Lords is considering the detail of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill to reorganise student loans and give ministers power to make universities charge students fees at a set level....
Six years after the creation of the new universities distinctions are blurring. They teach as well as old universities - especially if allowance is made for their bigger classes and different...
TWO requirements handed to the draftsmen of part two of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill were to ensure that institutions make new home and European Union undergraduate entrants pay tuition...
Trainee teacher Toby Marshall thinks his fellow students have bought new Labour's hype on education and forgotten about developing intellectual independence In September 1996 I enrolled on a...
Procedures for making appointments, particularly to chairs, are surprisingly informal, says Richard Clogg. He calls for Scandinavian-style openness The THES's campaign to introduce an element of...
An interesting game of national and political identities emerges from "Clan mentality rules in Italian universities" (THES, January 9). This implies two European countries, obviously Italy and...
SUSAN Greenfield says that peer review procedures are stifling the "derring-do and innovative thinking that gave this country a reputation for truly astonishing science" (Letters, THES, January 16)....
IT SEEMS impossible not to endorse the various flaws in peer review of applications for research grants and academic promotions. We are admonished to go for peak-quality performance, yet power and...
Mantz Yorke calls for the marriage of teaching and research by establishing a separate unit of assessment in the research assessment exercise devoted to higher education (Opinion, THES, January 16)....
Church of Scotland. Alan Main, professor of practical theology at Christ's College in Aberdeen and former university chaplain, has been appointed moderator of the General Assembly from 1998....