Berlinguer's slow road to radicalism
The ills of the university system and the possibility of radical reforms are today one of the most hotly debated issues in Italian politics and the media. If this is the case, it is at least partly...
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Storm over upgrading technicians
The Italian higher education ministry is under mounting pressure to alter controversial plans to upgrade nearly 4,000 graduate technicians from non-teaching staff to associate professors. The plan...
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CVCP just says no
Your article on the "drug-dealer student" (THES, April 3) wrongly accuses United Kingdom universities of "sweeping under the carpet", "turning a blind eye" and being "complacent", in their treatment...
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Dearing goes abroad
The committee of inquiry had no time to do more than note the international dimension of higher education. But Britain must not be left behind the game, says Lord Dearing. THE vice-chancellors of 17...
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IRA death threat
Vincent McKenna, a postgraduate student at Queen's University Belfast, has received a death threat from the IRA. This follows the expression of views by him on the issue of Orange marches on the...
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Science research under pressure
Easter is a good time to review higher education's position, as the comprehensive spending review reaches its final stages. There is good and bad in the record. On the good side, applications from...
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Truth in the digital age
THE Internet has made it vastly easier for people to tell the world about themselves. But there is usually no guarantee that what they say is true. That could change. If universities issued...
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We're women, not girls
We need look no further than the title of the article "Thinking like a man is good for the girls" (THES, March 13) to refute its claim. Men are men, it seems, while women remain girls, not allowed to...
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Don's diary
Saturday. The Political Studies Association conference we are organising this year has been an outstanding success. A succession of brilliant papers, three days of continuous sunshine, the food has...
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Good service from the admin office
MEASURING the quality of service students receive in higher education has focused on teaching and learning, which can be inspected and audited according to set standards and procedures. But can and...
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The rocky road to Akmola
It seems like an odd place to put a capital. The city of Almaty is practically in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan with most of Kazakstan's 2.7 million square miles lying to the north. Only the Alatau...
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American University of Beirut college hall
(Photograph) - Open door: A student at the American University of Beirut stands against the backdrop of the college hall, bombed in 1991 and being rebuilt, which is due to open in June. Photograph:...
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Lecturers lay down the law
North America A rising number of United States college professors are using their course syllabi to lay down codes of conduct for students, who they say are becoming increasingly unruly. Along with...
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Union calls off boycott
North America Canada's academic trade union has called off an international boycott of the Technical University of British Columbia. The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it is...
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Academics join forces to grill public
ACADEMIC work groups have been set up to frame a series of questions for thousands of ordinary Britons participating in the country's social research programmes. More than 80 users of the 1946, 1958...