WHILE Canadians have re-elected Jean Chretien and his Liberal government, they have dropped him into a legislature that looks completely different. Upon calling the election, the centrist Liberals...
TAKING over a new "super" ministry embracing education, research and technology last week, geophysicist Claude All gre promised there would be "no shocks" to the education system, but "reforms to...
FURTHER education will benefit from the new administration in the Irish Republic following last week's general election, which resulted in a hung Dail - the lower house of parliament. All the main...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation AS Nearly half a million French school students prepare to take the baccalaureat, this educational...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Modest proposals by the Japanese education ministry for a fast-track system in which above-average...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Despite legal hurdles and furious protests from the student left, Italian universities are increasingly...
NINETEEN ninety-seven is an important year for medical education. Medical schools have recently come through the research assessment exercise with considerable misgivings and some trauma. Sir Rex...
The review of public/private partnerships due today should kick-start university building projects which have been waiting for new guidance, say David Cuckson and Peter Walters Friday the 13th may be...
The anonymity of candidates is not sufficiently protected by the substitution of numbers for names, says Roger Watson Anonymous marking has become almost universal in higher education in the past ten...
Although Terry Hyland (THES, May 2) complains that transferable skills cannot be defined, I think I can offer a few suggestions. I would define communication skills as the ability to talk/write to an...
Concerning my leaving Southampton Institute in August of this year (THES, May 16). I have not been asked to take voluntary redundancy as you stated twice. In the normal course of events, I would have...
There is no doubt that existing salary and careers structures for academic and academic-related staff are seriously flawed, fail to meet elementary equal opportunities criteria and are open to...
The recent academic pay survey (THES, June 6) provided a sensation of "deja vu all over again" (to quote a prominent football manager). Those surveys showing university pay lagging behind comparable...
While agreeing with your editorial comment (THES, June 6) that academic librarians are not paid much, I have to express some reservations about the validity of Hay Management Consultants' conclusions...
Sian Griffiths has misunderstood how Oxford University's recent professorial distinctions exercise operated ("Oxford women profs penalised", THES, June 6). The result is a story which is both...