Research riles Irish director
A LECTURER has been disciplined over research he conducted into reading and writing difficulties of some of his students. Patrick Greer suggested that the textbooks were too difficult for average...
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Happiness is a biscuit bar
Few scientists have the satisfaction of reaching the peak of academic excellence and then putting the product they worked on in the laboratory on the market, but Mexican microbiologist Alfredo...
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Indians consider code for standards
INDIA's University Grants Commission is studying a proposal for a model code of governance for universities following complaints of increasing political interference in their affairs and a fall in...
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Indian students protest over student leaders death
* Late last month, as the campaign for the arrest of the "killers" of the radical student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad spread (THES, April 25), nearly 10,000 university students from across India...
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Time at a premium
"Permanent academics still have a large degree of freedom in choosing how to devote their time" (THES, May 2). Surely there is one obvious counterblast to Vincenzo Raimo's "Golden age of the don is...
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Japanese venture into business partnerships with industry
Hokkaido University in north Japan is to establish a business investment fund to attract capital for manufacturing and marketing the products being developed at the university's research laboratories...
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Aarhus deaths link
DEATHS caused by pesticides so toxic that they are banned in Denmark have brought Aarhus University under public scrutiny because its research fund holds 45 per cent of the shares in Cheminova, the...
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Fast-track degrees scandal
THE RECTOR and vice rector of Milan's state university and the dean of its medical faculty may face trial after a two-year investigation into corruption allegations. They are among up to 30 of the...
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Peeved 'retiree' off to US
DISGUSTED with a "stupid rule" which is forcing him to retire, the French scientist who first isolated the HIV virus in 1983 is to head a new research centre on Aids and other "emergent diseases" at...
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UNL left SCITT
Your In Brief item headed "UNL consortium's teaching won't do" (THES, May 2) was so brief that it gives a very misleading account. The consortium of seven schools which was referred to was headed and...
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Tables turn for German universities
GERMAN universities have been gripped by league table fever as the news magazine Focus publishes an exhaustive survey of the best universities in 20 different subjects over a nine-week series....
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Solid base for Battle's battle
The last time there was a Labour government there was a Department of Industry with a Secretary of State and three other ministers, and a Department of Energy with the same array of ministerial...
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Turn back the clock on overseas fees
Following the change of government it is timely to reflect on overseas student trends since 1980. Latest figures from the Department for Education and Employment show that since 1982 the number of...
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CAT among the pigeons
Credit-based funding looks set to become the panacea for the otherwise intractable difficulty of finding a fairer way of subsidising higher and further education. It is a good idea. The present...
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Getting on with the neighbours
How to shape HE: John Goddard highlights key issues for the new Government There is hardly any aspect of the public policy debate about the future shape of higher education that does not have a...