No profit in conflict
Vice-chancellors must steer clear of personal commercial involvement, argues Gillian Evans When you become vice-chancellor of a high-profile university that has announced that it wants to build links...
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Quality without playing games
How can we best monitor standards? Roger Brown outlines his ideal evaluation regime It is too early to say whether the Quality Assurance Agency's new quality framework will deliver, but, as a report...
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Why I...believe Gao Xingjian does not deserve the Nobel prize
Bill Jenner Professor of Chinese studies Leeds University There was obviously a feeling among the judges of the Nobel prize for literature that it was time to recognise a writer from China, the only...
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Commonwealth studies must fight its corner
The Commonwealth is not 'the tail-end of empire' and its study offers significant political insights, argues John Morgan. The University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies is the only...
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Public is right to be wary of GM, so let's open debate
Britain's plant scientists are a diverse group, to judge from responses to our poll on the genetic modification of crops, but their concern at the public hostility they face is shared. The BSE crisis...
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Funds for Social Scientists
Deadline: 31/12/2000
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Agony aunt
Q Many of my students are from abroad and I want them to go home with a positive learning experience. What sort of guidance is available? A Lee Dunn, Lecturer (on leave), School of Social Workplace...
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How to ... Spread the word on best practice
WHAT A new, round-the-clock information network aims to get best teaching practice to all who need it, writes Cliff Allan WHY Too often, research is not disseminated and remains within the circle of...
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It's an IT field day, but students lose
A 'virtual' strategy designed to help immobile students experience fieldwork could lock the whole class in the lab, writes Lawrie Phipps With a plethora of "virtual" fieldwork...
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Star Turn: Angelo Cecchini
Students fall in love in his lectures on literature as theology. Is this God moving in mysterious ways, Domenico Pacitti asks Students signing up for Angelo Cecchini's American literature courses at...
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Training by carrot, not by baton
Police training is not the didactic regime that some might believe. In fact, it follows the same humane and facilitating principles as most education. Pat Leon reports from the Harrogate police...
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'Militants' rally to save jobs
A "new militancy" has taken root in higher education as up to 1,000 academic jobs face the axe in new universities. Support staff are to join academics' industrial action and there...
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Serbia ousts old guard
Serbia's isolated universities this week began to claw back control from the allies of ousted Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in the expectation that they will soon rejoin the European academic...