Industry urges Japan's engineers to get practical
Japanese universities are being urged to improve standards in their engineering faculties as fears mount that the country is losing its competitive edge. The content of engineering courses, the...
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US shifts to funding by results
State funding for colleges and universities in the United States is increasingly being matched to "results" in a shift that mirrors experiments in accountability in Britain and Australia. More than...
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Border students go Dutch
German students living near the Dutch border are beating overcrowding in their local universities by crossing the border to study at universities in the Netherlands. Dutch higher education...
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Brain drain threat for the south
The north-south divide between Italy's 60 or so state universities, which reflects the country's economic and social rift, could widen under government plans to give universities greater autonomy....
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Private door opens in Greece
Greece's education secretary has embarrassed the government by voting in favour of opposition plans to permit private universities. The opposition has revealed that Gerasimos Arsenis, in a...
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A new regime for medical students
Higher education is set to expand student numbers by 20 per cent in the next seven years - but only in medicine, where the intake in England and Wales is on its way up from 5,000 to 6,000 by 2005....
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Holiday homework for juniors
The spending review is out, ministers are shuffled, exams are marked and degrees collected. Education has three new junior ministers, Charles Clarke, Margaret Hodge and George Mudie. George Mudie,...
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The need for a science of teaching
Teaching is the core technology of what teachers do. It provides the most likely explanation for why educational reforms in Britain have hitherto always failed, namely that by pulling the "lever" of...
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Good start, wrong road
More money for higher education is welcome but the cash crisis continues, argues Nicholas Barr David Blunkett writes (THES letters, July 24) that public spending on higher education will go up by...
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Millions of reasons to cheer
Education secretary David Blunkett says higher education's extra funding is substantial and meets Lord Dearing's key priorities ONE of the first things I was determined to do when I became secretary...
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Camera, action
(Photograph) - University of Wolverhampton art and design graduate Stuart Cole has created an "extreme sports camera" which can be used one-handed. He has been inundated with calls since the...
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Party games and curries with Derek Draper
NUS must continue its shift away from the shackles of the Labour party if it is to serve students properly, argues Lembit Opik I HAve got two things in common with the lobbyist and former Labour...
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Campaign in making
AS the woman leader of the "Gentlemen's club" you criticise (Leader, THES, July 24), I hesitate to ascribe perversity, but are you not a little ungenerous about the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and...
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10% to a good cause
Aberdeen University principal Duncan Rice and his wife are to be applauded on their Pounds 35,000 donation to the university's bursary scheme (THES, July 10). This is not as exceptional as you imply...
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Mentors
BOTH Bahram Behhradnia and Lewis Elton (THES, June 26) miss the point in their analysis of the relationship of rewards to performance in teaching. Financial incentives are shallow and superficial...