States update pacts on degrees
MORE THAN 50 countries are expected to back a new convention on the recognition of higher education qualifications at a diplomatic conference in Lisbon in April. The Council of Europe and Unesco are...
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Malaysia relaxes rules on university entry
THE RURAL poor in Malaysia are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the relaxation of entry requirements to local universities. About 40 per cent of school leavers could go to university...
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Backlash to race attack
Melbourne. MALAYSIA's warning that it might recall more than 11,000 of its students studying in Australia if their safety was threatened by racist behaviour has sparked alarm among Australia's vice...
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System is broke but not broken
So ends 1996. Four years of hard work yielded a welcome Christmas present for many in terms of improved research assessments. Months of campaigning and lobbying produced a little more cash for...
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Penalised for making it
AFTER the emotional responses to the research assessment exercise results last week, attention shifts to the financial implications. The quality research funding formula is not yet known. It is...
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Before Babylon's end
The Ancient Near East c.3000-330 BC
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Studies in monumental flesh
Lucian Freud
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Whose 'life' is it anyway?
The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 - The Seductions of Biography - History and Biography
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First impressions
The opening lines of this week's book were penned by an author who now permanently resides in Highgate: "In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses - and even great ladies,...
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While around the world campuses were plagued by death and violence
In the year that memorial tables to the four colleagues murdered by Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant were unveiled, there were several reminders that universities are not immune from...
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Chairs
University of Leeds Inge Bates, senior lecturer and director of the centre for the study of post-16 developments at the University of Sheffield, developmental chair in education and work; Peter...
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Honorary degrees
University of Hertfordshire DSc: Brian Corby, retiring chancellor, former chief executive of the Prudential Assurance Company and the first chairman of the Association of British Insurers, president...
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Cardiff leaps up table
The University of Wales, Cardiff, which rose 20 places in The THES research assessment rankings this year, is set to receive degree-awarding powers from the Privy Council next year. The powers will...
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Appointments
Association of Commonwealth Universities The following have been appointed to the council for 1996-97: Chair: Brenda Gourley, vice chancellor and principal, University of Natal, South Africa. Vice...