Rent-buy deal for Australian students
Australia's 700,000 university students have been offered their own new IBM computer, fully equipped and with free access to the internet for just A$9.50 (Pounds 3.65) a week. The National Union of...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD www.ahrb.ac.uk Small...
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Unequal opportunities, a universitry challenge
Universities, by and large, badly serve the poor and minorities. Alison Goddard visits one trying hard to remove barriers and another struggling to attract non-traditional students Britain's...
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Don's diary
Monday Fly back from Turkey, nursing scraped knees and ankles from chasing a Loew's silver-studded blue down a cliff. Great holiday. Twelve new species of butterfly, five new birds. Children noisy on...
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Name the bridge burner
What courtier can be gambling with his career - and other peoples' - by whispering "top-up fees" into the ear of the prime minister, against the wishes of education ministers? Evan Harris, Liberal...
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Masters of the Universe
Crunch time approaches for members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, who have been locked in discussion about the issue perhaps closest to their hearts - their name. Urged to...
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Image comes first
The CVCP may want to consult with colleagues in the higher education colleges on image-making. The Standing Conference of Principals feels "Scop" is a suitably peppy title for the new millennium and...
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Adam becomes an Eve
As female students at Glasgow University this week celebrated International Women's Day by changing campus building names to commemorate women rather than men, it emerged that Mother Nature had given...
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Early booking
The American Academy of Pediatrics has signed an agreement with e-book developer Everybook that will give the academy's members and subscribers access to electronic publication of the medical journal...
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Does the research assessment exercise discriminate against women?
Does the research assessment exercise discriminate against women? Email soapbox@thes.co.uk
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
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World watch
The Autonomous University of Barcelona, not the University of Barcelona, topped a table of Spanish universities published by the Gazeta Universitaria (THES, January 28). The University of Barcelona...
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English 'crucial' in Japan
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...
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Foreign students surge into Australia
MELBOURNE Enrolments of foreign students in Australian universities are expected to exceed all records in 2000, partly as a result of a substantial growth in new markets. More than 100,000 fee-paying...
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Ontario in dock for pocketing undergraduate funds
MONTREAL Three Ontario students have returned cheques from a Canadian grant programme, claiming their provincial government is pocketing funds intended to ease their debt. More students may soon join...