Serbs appoint new Kosovo university chief
THE SERBIAN government has appointed a new vice-chancellor of the University in Pristina, capital of the strife-torn Kosovo region. After Serbia abolished the autonomy of Pristina University, along...
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Brits plea for house facelift
THE British House in the international university city on the edge of Paris is in serious disrepair and needs urgent renovation, but no donor is forthcoming. Other national houses in the city are...
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Hanover heads the vets PhD vanguard
A VETS' college in Northrhine-Westfalia is the first German university to introduce an international PhD that will be more compatible with foreign qualifications. Tieraerztliche Hochschule in Hanover...
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Outlets for creative thinking
"FREEWAY flyers" sounds romantic. It conjures up open roads, broad horizons, travelling to freedom. But Elaine Showalter is talking about something less appealing (page 14). In the United States only...
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Building bloc for arts and humanities
THE establishment of the Arts and Humanities Research Board opens a new era in research for a large and diverse body of academic disciplines. For many years scholars have lamented the absence of a...
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Gentlemen's club in need of reform
IT IS one year since the Dearing committee on the future of higher education reported. In assessing what it achieved it is worth recalling why it was set up. In 1995, the Conservative government...
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More than a whiff of corruption
I WAS highly relieved by Domenico Pacitti's proof that the Mafia mentality is in the Italian system rather than in the blood ("Bolognese flavoured corruption", THES, July 10). I was sure to have been...
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Fellowships
Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...
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More than a whiff of corruption
Domenico Pacitti's experience is emblematic of the disease that afflicts Italian universities. Merit has no place in a feudal patriarchy poorly disguised as a modern liberal democracy. Education...
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More than a whiff of corruption
DO THE the Italian university authorities really think that by decentralising the selection procedure (concorsi) for academic posts in their country the entire system's endemic nepotism will be "...
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Sokal and charlatans
THANK you for airing the Sokal debate (THES, October 10 and July 10), but it is dispiriting to read the rebuffs. The charge of scientific nonsense in the writings of Lacan, Latour, Kristeva and...
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A cash boost for everyone
Last week's THES reporting of the government's statement on more investment in higher education managed to be both inaccurate and dispiriting. We will not build a successful future for higher...
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New wing for the temple of literature
Elaine Showalter, president of the Modern Language Association, describes moves to solve the United States jobs crisis in the humanities For most British academics the American "MLA" means the annual...
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Museums cash review
"In Brief" (THES, July 10) may have misled readers in stating that the Museums and Galleries Commission wants local education authorities to fund museums for services to schools and colleges. This is...
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Campaigning v-cs push for a new deal
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean THE government's decision to direct new funds to higher education following its comprehensive...