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...
Search
-
-
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...
-
Doctored degree charge denied
Pisa. The Italian higher education ministry has finally responded to international concern over its handling of a Chilean-Canadian researcher's alleged maltreatment by the national exam board. David...
-
Rigorous registrar in rumpus
Dublin. A bizarre row has blown up at Ireland's most prestigious and least-known academic institution - the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It has resulted in minutes of meetings going...
-
Archaeologists dig for gold
Playing the heritage card could help scientists win funding, says Wendy Barnaby Scientists are turning to tourism, the world's fastest-growing industry, as a novel way of winning funding. A recent...
-
Sources for research funding
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Royal Geographical Society tel: 0171 591 3073 www.rgs.org email:...
-
Court out
(Photograph) - Court out: riot police guard the Malaysian High Court in Kuala Lumpur where reformist finance minister Anwar Ibrahim is being tried on corruption and sex charges. Two senior...
-
Boxing in colleges is none too clever
The Standing Conference of Principals held its annual meeting in Bournemouth this week. The colleges are caught between further education colleges and schools on one side and universities on the...
-
Reform elections before the timebomb explodes
First-past-the-post must go or British politics becomes farce, write Patrick Dunleavy and Helen Margetts This week's Congressional mid-term elections will remind us all that first-past-the-post...
-
New politicians, new ball game
Lindsay Paterson, professor of education policy studies at Edinburgh University, is building a career as a conference Cassandra, expressing uncomfortable views. Last autumn, he warned an Association...
-
Agathangelou defended
May I correct some statements in the letter "Project defended" (Letters, THES, October 30). First, I was suspended by the University of Newcastle after, not before, I raised serious concerns with the...
-
Agathangelou defended
I represented Anthony Agathangelou in his hearing on behalf of Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards alongside a senior Association of University Teachers representative. Janet Walker...
-
Wide of the Mark
To misquote Oscar Wilde once may be regarded as a misfortune. To attribute a quotation to him as comprehensively as Anthea Millett did (Letters, THES, October 30) looks like the sort of carelessness...
-
Spoonfeedback
I have some sympathy with John France ("Ditch the dialogue of the daft", Letters, THES, October 30). When I was a young interviewer, I hated being inspected and assessed and convinced myself I was...
-
War with some justice
Niall Ferguson ("Battle of the dons of war", THES, October 30) and I both had grandfathers who served in the first world war, but our conclusions about our their experiences are rather different....