Strength in uni-ty
Why," asks Simon Jenkins on page 17, "are our universities so timid?" In his book, Accountable to None: the Tory Nationalisation of Britain, published this week, he has rehearsed the sorry saga of...
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Statue angers Albanians
The unveiling of a statue to 19th-century Serbian scholar Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic at the University of Pristina in Kosovo has angered ethnic Albanians, who make up more than 90 per cent of the...
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France to find space for 1.6m
French universities, facing chronic space problems, opened their doors last week to an estimated 1,588,000 students, an increase of 46,000 on last year. The particularly good baccalaureat pass rate...
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Life as we may know it after Nolan
The work of the Nolan committee on standards in public life marks a significant shift in the debate on accountability. The first stage of its activity, which identified the main principles of public...
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Italians rethink industry research links
Italian universities are showing signs of backing away from their strategy of developing industrially-orientated undergraduate courses in favour of a general education followed by specialist...
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Marks are challenged
A wrangle over the results of special university entrance exams in Portugal is spilling over into the enrolment season which ends in November. Since publication of the results and initial allocation...
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Assistants protest over lack of security
Lecturers in dispute over working conditions held up protest banners at the University of Barcelona's ceremony to mark the opening of the new academic year. At the neighbouring Pompeu y Fabre...
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Rise and shine with a class brimming with OJ
British viewers may wonder, but it appears the O. J. Simpson trial was not an entirely futile exercise. For Paul Rothstein, of Georgetown University's law school in Washington DC, it has yielded a...
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Flood of foreign students predicted
Australia is facing a huge expansion in the number of fee-paying foreign students seeking places over the next 15 years, according to a new survey. The study predicts a five-fold increase in overseas...
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College escapes fatal past
Concordia University seems on the road back to stability after three years of turmoil which began with the shooting deaths of four professors by a colleague and continued with a substantial turnover...
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References
(1) "Opportunity and achievement", The THES, November 12, 1993. (2) The Report of the Commission on Social Justice. November 1994. Institute of Public Policy Research. (3) Further Education Alert....
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Spill the beans... We need your views on these questions
1 Should expansion in participation in post-16 education continue? How far should expansion go? 2 What role should post-16 education play in developing a modern, competitive economy? 3 Tuition fees...
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Student funding: off the back burner
(Photograph) - New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers, is seeking to revitalise the debate on student funding. In the first stage of a consultation exercise, the group...
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Worm turns muck into grass
One of the gardener's best friends, the worm, will face the formidable challenge next spring of converting a mixture of sewage sludge and colliery soil into relatively fertile soil. The task for the...
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Needles for sore noddles
Sufferers from tension headaches may soon be regularly treated by acupuncture if research at the University of Exeter is successful. Researchers at the Centre for Complementary Health Studies in the...