Italy's university minister, Luigi Berlinguer, has called on rectors to draw up plans for university building projects to be financed by private institutions, primarily banks, to ease the burden on...
University leaders in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg saw the writing on the wall in the dying days of the Soviet Union and began freeing faculty deans to pursue commercial ventures. Seven...
Salaries of 50p a month, teaching computers without the hardware, books costing more than a month's pay and a ban on the import of pencils. Welcome to higher education in Iraq. Christine Aziz reports...
The university of the future The overwhelming impression that comes from reading Dearing's Higher Education in the Learning Society is the familiarity of the issues involved even from half a world...
I AGREE with most of what Phil Willis MP said in his THES article last week. Any money raised by tuition fees must be retained for the benefit of higher education. Since employers are major...
SO Chris Brand feels that his "academic freedom" has been curtailed (THES, August 15). Does this mean his "freedom" to attempt to give racism a veneer of academic respectability, or his "freedom" to...
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education ALL IS not well with clinical research in this...
Universities responded with alarm this week to news that student tuition fees was not extra money for them Oxford said it would fight moves to reduce its local authority fee income in line with the...
SUE Wilks and Griselda Pollock (THES, August 15) wish to "outlaw sexist bachelor and masters degrees" as they are part of "archaic male-dominated language", and Ms Wilks wishes to be called Mistress...
Cambridge University expects to shed about 60 academic jobs by the turn of the century as part of a plan to cut Pounds 1.5 million from the annual wage bill. It was hoped that the introduction of...
UNIVERSITIES will not see a penny of student tuition fees over the next few years because the Government intends to siphon off the cash to cover central administration costs. The Department for...
Phil Baty reports on the final rounds of a lecturer's long legal fight to open up Cambridge's promotions system Cambridge University maintains that there is not enough money to promote everyone. A...
COLLEGES should receive a major chunk of an Pounds 875 million windfall from the Government's New Deal for the unemployed, according to education secretary DavidBlunkett. Mr Blunkett has written to...
The AOC has written to the Department for Education and Employment urging a rethink on government policy on the funding of 16-19 education. The association is concerned that by 2000 colleges will...
Students are buying just half the number of books they should be, and money must be found to redress the shortfall, the Publishers Association warned this week. Only 42 per cent of students buy all...