Afrikaner off the Marx
Do I detect just a hint of poetic licence in Mike Cole's Don's Diary (THES, July 7)? The gentleman he saw in full regalia in a coffee bar in the Orange Free State could certainly not have been a...
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A contract killing
In his vicious maligning of further education staff who have rejected the Colleges Employers Forum contract, Roger Ward (THES, July 26) demonstrates yet again the ignorant hostility that has made it...
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Excitement in the challenge
Engineering and Physical Sciences All efforts to ensure that science and technology can contribute to national well-being rely for their success on one vital factor; namely the inherent excitement of...
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Unesco digs deep to save caveman site
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is appealing for help to raise Pounds 1.6 million to fund emergency protection of the endangered Peking Man site in China. The money...
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The vapourised and the dead
In the steaming heat of a July evening this year, 20 students at the American University in Washington were hard at work learning about the history of nuclear war. "The question is why did we drop...
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Passport rush to beat oppression
The value of foreign passports among lecturers in Hong Kong has reached an all-time high, with uncertainty reaching fever-pitch among lecturers over China's plans for academic freedom after 1997....
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China signs book deal
The Chinese government has established a special fund to support and promote key academic books. Starting this year the State Press and Publication Administration will set aside 10 million yuan (...
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Students face three year wait
Students in Sri Lanka taking their A levels this month may have to wait three years before being admitted to university. The youth uprising between 1987-90 led to the closure of universities for...
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Rich kids dominate degree block
Social differences are increasing within France's two million strong student population according to the most detailed-ever survey of French students, writes Stella Hughes. More than ,000 students...
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Soros withdraws threat to stop research funding
The Soros Foundation has called off its threat to freeze funding for research and higher education in Belarus. The government last week agreed that foundation money should be exempt from the 40 per...
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IQ tests to nurture gifted
I agree with James Tooley and Richard Lynn (THES, July 7, 28) in that subject-specific IQ tests would target the individual needs of schoolchildren. There is little point in forcing children to learn...
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Sasakawa slips between the lines
For all his immense wealth and power, Ryoichi Sasakawa's death last week from heart failure, at the age of 96, was recorded in Japan with a brevity that betrayed the most intense discomfort. At once...
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De Boishue book sparks race row
A heated row has blown up over allegedly racist passages in a book written by France's secretary of state for higher education, Jean de Boishue. The opposition Socialist Party has called for his...
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Universities ordered to repay tuition fees
Universities in Portugal are faced with having to refund students' tuition fees they paid illegally, following a council of rectors' ruling. The mistake - a misinterpretation of the 1994 tuition fees...
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X-ray boost for industry
An X-ray system devised for use in medical research at the University of Wales College of Medicine is now being applied to the needs of industry, writes Iola Smith. Originally installed to help...