China tightens overseas rules
THE CHINESE State Education Commission has banned overseas institutions from setting up and running programmes or setting examinations for profit in China without government approval. The commission...
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Threat of violence stalks election day
TENSION still runs high in Karachi's universities as Pakistan prepares for a general election. But allegations of torture and beatings at the University of Karachi have been overtaken by a new wave...
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Cadets allege sexual abuse
FORCED by a multi-million dollar legal battle to open its doors to women, The Citadel, South Carolina's elite military academy, is now mired in charges of sexual harassment. After two of its first...
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Dilly-dalliers cured
HELP is at hand in Quebec for students who avoid their thesis advisers or cram for exams. According to Canadian surveys, procrastination adversely affects 40-45 per cent of students. So twice a year...
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Keep the bright sparks burning
Should there be a national curriculum for higher education and if so what would it consist of? The national council of the Training and Enterprise Councils is moving that way, with its demands that...
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Wake up and get back in the same boat
National interest in the Commonwealth all but evaporated in the 1980s. Displaced by a concentration on European issues and dismissed by a prime minister who regarded the isolation of apartheid as a...
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Market forces and the charge of the fees brigade
Universities should ignore the exchequer and set their own fees, says Richard Mawditt Levels of tuition fees have become inextricably linked to what the Government is prepared to pay for higher...
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Teach yourself autonomy does not work
Developing students as autonomous learners is a proper aim for a university but not a solution to funding crises, says Grenville Wall As university finance gets tighter, exhausted staff take early...
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Pragmatic politics
Your leader (THES, January 24) made comments both on Gordon Brown's latest speech and on the salaries dispute in universities. However, you have obscured some important issues. First, by saying that...
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Professional ambitions
You report that "British-born black youngsters are being confined to an arts and humanities ghetto" (THES, January 24). When examining at the University of Singapore I was surprised to find that only...
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Academy set up for African research
A SCHEME to revitalise research in Africa is to be launched later this year in an effort to generate home-grown solutions to the continent's many problems including conflict, disease, and famine. The...
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Demand drops for PGCE
A SIGNIFICANT drop in demand for postgraduate teacher training courses is revealed in the first official figures on applications for higher education places this year. Numbers applying for places on...
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Students fear loss of rights
NEW universities could introduce binding arbitration for student appeals and complaints under a set of proposals from vice chancellors. But the National Union of Students argues that the procedure...
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Open book on France
Max Beloff's critique of the French school system from a British point of view, and his friendly remarks about Anne Corbett are appreciated (THES, January 24). But why did he shut his eyes to the...
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Pecking order
It is time to initiate debate about the implications of the research assessment exercise for the "new" universities and the hierarchy of values which it is necessarily perpetuating. As expected, the...