Pisa's tower of computer babel
In the 1950s, Nobel-winning physicist Enrico Fermi spurred Italy to build its first electronic computer. That machine, a vast construction of tubes, transistors and electro-mechanical switches, will...
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French aid poor but bright
FRENCH education minister Claude Allegre has said that the poorest students today are receiving less support to go through university than did their predecessors a quarter of a century ago. He...
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Jobless graduates get money back
TWO private higher education colleges in Germany are offering students their money back if they cannot find a job within four or six months of graduating. The private Fachhochschule or technical...
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Wits search for chief ends with a white
The University of the Wi****ersrand has finally found a new leader after a two-year search. Most surprisingly, the next vice chancellor will be that rather endangered of South African species - a...
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Degrees shake-up
KENYA's five public universities have embarked on a major degree restructuring programme to tailor courses closer to the economy following a rise in graduate unemployment and underemployment. The...
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Uganda gets tough on welfare
The Ugandan government has scrapped needy students' allowances in Makerere University as a first step towards introducing full-cost tuition and boarding fees in higher education, writes Wachira...
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Now science must understand public
The one week of the year in which British newspapers fill up with science stories is upon us, having missed by a whisker seven days in which even a mass arrival of aliens on the Earth would have had...
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Open pursuit of knowledge
With four weeks left for consultation on the Dearing report, THES readers recall the big picture. This week, Fergus Millar on academic freedom THE DEARING report is in many ways an extraordinary...
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Model answer from Wales
Unexciting it may have been so far, but that does not mean that next Thursday's Welsh referendum on devolution does not matter. Those who hoped to see a livelier exchange of ideas on the fundamental...
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Architecture's research dimension
Bryan Lawson wishes to designate as postgraduate the final two years of the five-year undergraduate course in architecture to solve a problem he perceives with the discipline's research dimension (...
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Architecture's research dimension
Your report that the RIBA is reviewing its research policy to take account of the low research ratings achieved by a fair number of schools of architecture in the recent research assessment exercise...
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Harris part in my book
Readers who enjoyed the venom of Roy Harris's "review" (THES, September 6) of my book Language is Power need to know one crucial piece of information which Harris did not feel able to tell us himself...
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Top ten:Computer Books
The British Library has given Pounds 400,000 for research on the impact of the Internet on libraries and information provision. Five of the ten successful bids came from universities: Strathclyde,...
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Review of Lefkowitz
Angela Pinter's strange, disjointed and hostile letter (THES, September 5) regarding my review of Bernard Lefkowitz's book on gang rape is hard to untangle. The King's Cross rape which she seems so...
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Teaching institute
A major proposal in the Dearing report is the creation of an Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, thus enhancing the status of teaching and learning. The institute's three main...