Portugal suspends tuition fee law
The incoming Socialist government in Portugal is suspending the controversial tuition fee law as promised by leader Antonio Guterres in the party election manifesto. In its place students at state...
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Expats ponder career prospects in ex-colony
With 600 days to go before Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule, expatriate academics, who are reluctant to work under a Chinese dictator, are starting to reconsider their career options. Stanley Vittoz...
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Black woman scores v-c first
Former black consciousness activist Mamphela Ramphela is to be the first black leader of an historically white university and South Africa's second woman vice chancellor. She was chosen last week as...
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Myanmar students rally for rights
Hundreds of students in Rangoon have defied the military government of Myanmar (Burma), to honour the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. They gathered in front of her home to celebrate a traditional...
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Aid for TV fans with poor sight
Visually impaired people will soon have much less difficulty in following television programmes thanks to an audio commentary that fills in the gaps between dialogue. Known as Audiotel, the technique...
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Malaysian college plan falters
Plans for a privately-financed London University college in Malaysia are in danger of collapse over disagreements between the university authorities and the sponsors about the status of the new...
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Surprise rise in intake could bring penalties
Early estimates from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service indicate that there has been a 6.4 per cent increase in admissions for this academic year compared to 1994/95. This means that...
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Leeds censors access to Internet
Leeds University has decided to withdraw access to a range of Internet newsgroups because of their "appalling" content, which computer staff say often includes pornographic material. But some...
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Battle of the races
Affirmative action is under attack in the United States. Tim Cornwell reports. A snapshot from an ideological battlefield: reporters from the new conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, called...
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Whither the likely lads?
Whatever happened to the heirs of the New Left, asks Fred Inglis In the early 1960s there was a remarkable flowering of intellectual life in Britain with the bursting into colour of the New Left....
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Famous Seamus
Seamus Heaney admits to Simon Targett that even Nobel laureates get embarrassed giving low marks to favourite students. He looked like a farmer with dress sense. His burly agricultural frame, topped...
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Bengali Brahmin meets Berkeley
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
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The Lady who turned to nationalisation
Simon Jenkins analyses how Margaret Thatcher brought higher education to heel. Why are our universities so timid? As they steel themselves to respond to Gillian Shephard's higher education review,...
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Mature apprentice seeks titled role
Robert Oxtoby argues that institutions that can award degrees should be allowed to call themselves universities. Every now and then during the past 150 years, the higher education community in...
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Book move may net VAT
Joe Sinyor (THES, October 6) is correct to assume that the collapse of the Net Book Agreement will have a marginal impact on the price of core textbooks. My concern is that in the short to medium...