The THES Diary
Support from the wife The appointment of David Gibson, principal of City College, Manchester, prompted one college principal to remark: "I am more proud of him than ever. I think he will be just...
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Glittering prizes
Sir Roger Penrose, 67, emeritus Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University, and Bernard Crick, 68, chairman of the government's commission on citizenship in schools and author of George...
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In the news
A man said to have held every major office except prime minister - "the best prime minister we never had" - and founder of a "third route" political party, the Social Democrats, long before Tony...
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Why it's sayonara, Japan
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
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Pisa
Indian economist and Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, who has been giving lectures at the University of Bologna, has complained of having to cancel a recent scheduled visit to Italy owing to the...
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Durban
Protests, disruptions, a student boycott and senate censure followed the decision to make 41 academics redundant at South Africa's University of the Western Cape, forcing a two-week postponement of...
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Lisbon
Portugal will spend 26 per cent more on research next year. Some Esc43,800 million (Pounds 162 million)will be available for science in 1999 compared with Esc34,700 million in 1998, according to...
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Moscow
Russia's deputy education minister has resigned in a policy clash with his new boss, whom he criticised for being too pro-Communist. Alexander Asmolov, a psychology professor, left within days of the...
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Eye witness
American physicists working on the international thermonuclear experimental (ITER) reactor in Garching, Germany, and Naka, Japan, are packing their bags and returning home. The United States has...
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Tajiks opt for revival of the fittest
Dushanbe. Tajikistan's education minister Munira Inoyatova is taking the Heinz approach to post-civil war reforms: 57 different types of curriculum are being introduced throughout the small Central...
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Hindus drop religious reform
New Delhi. The Indian government has dropped a proposal that would have diluted the constitutional right of religious minorities to run education institutions after its allies joined the opposition...
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Our friends in high places
Universities will suffer by reform of the Lords, says Conrad Russell Since the 1988 Education Act, universities have got used to looking to the House of Lords as their defender. Votes on university...
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Italian funding share
The British Council is targeting young talent with bright ideas for joint-project funding, writes Paul Bompard Young British and Italian scientists who collaborate on research could soon be tapping...
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Japan shakes off its torpor
Tokyo. A radical shakeup of Japan's stagnant higher education was recommended last week by the university council that advises the government. The council proposed tougher standards on staff and...
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Clash over red-green fees ban
Hamburg. Plans by Germany's new red-green coalition government for a national ban on student fees could face a legal challenge from the conservative state of Bavaria. Bavarian education minister Hans...