Between three worlds
Can South Africa afford five Afrikaans universities, asks Willie Esterhuyse. Michael is a black student from a rural area in the Transkei. During the holidays he ploughs with oxen and herds his...
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Higher profile
From next week The THES will be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system, available in most academic libraries and on the Internet. It will provide full...
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Return of the natives
One year on from South Africa's first free elections The THES analyses the current state of higher education. A well-qualified foreigner recently accep-ted a chair at a South African university....
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Search
The Women Returners Network has undertaken research for the EU on "Professional Women's Re-entry into the Labour Market: Implications for Training and Employment in Europe" and needs information on...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL R. G. Chambers has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the university, acknowledging his long service and ingenious practical experiments proving important theories in the...
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Events
WINDOWS ON SPACE The University of Leicester will be exhibiting work by Joyce Markie based on astronomical images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The exhibition "Windows on Space" will be held...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL D. C. Wraith, senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge, to the chair in pathological sciences; R. J. Smith, lecturer in econometrics at the University of Cambridge...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Paul Brown, welfare rights officer in Angus, has become national co-ordinator for students with special needs. The post is funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council...
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Post-results entry hitch
Vice chancellors have put the brakes on plans for a post-qualifications admissions system that could have been in place by 1997. The steering group charged by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Oxford simply after the best
Oxford is scrapping its fourth-term entrance exam. Applicants will now go through the same proceedure as all other students though tests may still be set at interview. The decision was not taken to...
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Irish government to fund students studying in EU
Irish students studying in Britain and other EU countries are to get maintenance grants from the Irish government. This was announced last week in the budget which also confirmed the government's...
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Shephard purges governors
Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, has accepted two damning reports into college mismanagement and sacked several governors. However, Mrs Shephard said the behaviour of governors at...
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Into the minds of management
Lucy Hodges talks to Erica Shoenberger, (right) a geographer who believes that corporate decisions have as much to do with boardroom culture as economic facts. Erica Schoenberger's favourite reading...
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The rational anthem
For political scientist Eric Shaw the wholesale application of rational choice theory to political behaviour is deeply flawed - and the earliest warnings of its limitations came from its pioneer. "...
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The rational anthem
Criticism of rational choice theory is nothing new to Gordon Tullock, who has a joint appointment in economics and political science at the University of Arizona at Tucson. "They (the critics) have...