Appraisal imposed on Australians
A national inquiry into academic appraisal has recommended that all Australian universities be required to implement schemes so that staff are subject to regular reviews of their performance. The...
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California dream of fight for rights
Young volunteers from all over America - many of them students - are flocking to California this summer to fight ballot initiatives against immigrant rights and affirmative action which they regard...
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Size important but not the only criterion
Your article on Southampton Institute's discussion document The Future of the University Sector (THES, June 23) inaccurately stated that the institute had proposed that all higher education...
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Fractal flourishes end in musical discord
John Barrow suggests that musical compositions, when viewed from the appropriate perspective, embody 1/f noise characteristics (THES, June 25), a conclusion drawn from data given by Voss and Clarke...
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Put not faith in hope alone
Council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors' and Principals meets today, on its agenda quality assurance. Another attempt will be made by the chairman and officers to push through the Higher...
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Flagships echo to sound of mutiny
The views on university governance ascribed to "the unions" in your leader last week are certainly not those of Natfhe. As the organisation representing most academic staff in the new universities...
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Vocation found
The not-so-new vocational qualifications are here to stay. That is the message of The THES survey on perceptions of NVQs and GNVQs in further and higher education institutions. FE colleges are...
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Betrayal of old friendships
When Britain joined the then Common Market 22 years ago the Commonwealth connection featured heavily. Supporters of United Kingdom membership argued that it would make the Community more outward...
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Watchdogs to keep regional teeth
A new attempt is being made to reform quality control in United States colleges and universities following the near-revolution which greeted the first effort. Such was the outcry at the initial...
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South Africa learns from De Montfort
Support for a national system for monitoring academic standards was strong among senior South African higher education managers at a Cape Town conference recently. Most of the 118 delegates to the...
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Belarusian books axed
Text-books are among the first victims of a economic censorship in Belarus, following a referendum imposed by President Alaksandr Lukasenka. The referendum, on Russian oriented changes including...
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Jailed student exam plea
Protest is mounting in France over the continued detention of a student facing charges of associating with terrorists. Alexis Corbire is accused under tough new anti-terrorism laws of having given...
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Eva rules out youth's right to study racism
Eva Slavkovska, Slovakia's education minister, has refused funding for studies of racial intolerance and minorities. Her reasons were relayed by an official spokesman, since the country's new...
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Unesco aids peace plan
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has signed an agreement with Unesco to establish an international school for molecular biology and microbiology for peace. The school, initially operating in ten-...
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Opposition to German loans with 8% charge
The German government is considering charging up to 8 per cent interest on student loans as part of a wider plan to reform the student subsistence grant. The money generated would be redirected to...