Cash aid for quake repairs
The Italian university ministry has announced that billion lire (Pounds 10 million) will be paid out immediately to repair the damage to universities in Umbria and Marche during the massive...
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Student voucher funding irks university leaders
Australian vice chancellors last week rejected a key proposal in the West report on the future of higher education that called for funding universities through student grants or scholarships. The...
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Fees flatten out at US colleges
A NATIONAL commission on the price of higher education in the United States has been told that students' real costs soared from 1987 to 1993 but have stayed almost flat for the past three years. The...
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Worldwide Webster
ASMALL campus in the American Midwest is opening branches on five continents in a bid to become the world's first international university. Webster University in St Louis already offers American-...
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Techno age for La Laguna
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports The University of La Laguna was founded in 1792. Traditionally orientated towards humanities...
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Muslims demand sartorial freedom
SOME OF Turkey's leading universities are refusing to admit women students who adopt the strict Islamic dress code. Each day at Istanbul University, Islamic women students hold a silent protest...
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Grants abolition should be reversed
This week, under cover of the pre-budget statement with its money for after-school clubs and publication of the Fryer report with its emphasis on access, the bill to reform student loans, abolish...
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Control will cost goodwill
What are universities for? This was the theme of a conference at Cumberland Lodge last week organised with Glaxo Wellcome, supported by The THES and held under Chatham House rules. It could not have...
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Potential for development
In The THES (November 14), Sir Robert May, Bahram Bekhradnia, "John Smith" and others reflected on the future funding of research by the higher education funding councils. Bekhradnia suggested the...
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To stick, scrap or juggle?
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake Ministers deciding the fate of the Oxbridge college fee are considering three main options. The...
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Blind lecturer a judge
A SENIOR law lecturer has overcome disability and discrimination to become the United Kingdom's second-ever blind judge. Amir A. Majid, 44, a reader in law at London Guildhall University, has been...
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The sleuth and the cinematic genius
THE FELUDA STORIES. By Satyajit Ray. Penguin, 868pp 500 Rupees. ISBN 0 670 87098 6. THE HOUSE OF DEATH AND OTHER FELUDA STORIES. By Satyajit Ray. Penguin, 339pp200 Rupees. ISBN 0 14 026803 0....
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Lawyers in for a field day
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake IF ANYTHING new is decided about college fees, it will present a legal minefield, education...
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Factfile
* Anglia Polytechnic University has 6,991 part-time students, with 16.8 per cent studying business and administrative studies * The University of Central England has 5,320 part-time students, with 30...
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Charge of the bright brigade
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake OXBRIDGE colleges have levied charges and fees for hundreds of years. This practice was...