Twenty-one gun salute
The 21 universities and further education colleges who are the winners of the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education are the first beneficiaries of a scheme designed to find the...
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City and Islington College
Black media figures including Trevor Phillips and Moira Stewart are closely involved with City and Islington College's ground-breaking efforts to encourage young people from the ethnic minorities in...
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Aberdeen College
In the wake of the Piper Alpha disaster, there has been considerable concern about the safety of people working in the hostile environment of North Sea oil rigs. Aberdeen College, Scotland's largest...
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Glasgow University
Glasgow University is a prizewinner for its visitor centre, the first in the country, and a symbol of the university's determination to become more open to a wider public than staff and students. "A...
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Bedrock of elite survives reform
The bicentenaries of two of France's most prestigious grandes ecoles, l'Ecole Polytechnique last spring and Ulm (l'Ecole Normale Superieure) this autumn, have been the occasion of much celebration...
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Exhibition petition
Signatures are rapidly being collected in university circles in Hungary for a petition to save the proposed 1996 international exhibition, intended to commemorate the 1,100th anniversary of the...
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Beginning of the end for Baroni's men
The patronage and nepotism that has for decades controlled appointments in Italy's state university system is under a two-prong attack. There is a rising tide of protests and formal complaints filed...
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Central planning comes to post-apartheid system
Over the next year South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education will investigate ways of transforming the sector in line with new national goals, with crucial implications for the country's...
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Israel's OU opens up to the future
Israel is so preoccupied with regional politics that the 20th anniversary of the founding of the country's Open University is not attracting as much attention as it might. However, peace and long...
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Postgrad fees blamed for inquity
Postgraduate study in many fields is now beyond the reach of the average Australian student because of an extraordinary increase in the number and cost of fee-paying courses, according to the Council...
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Louisiana integrates
Forty years after the historic Brown v Board of Education ruling in the United States that blacks were receiving separate and unequal schooling, states in the South are still segregating university...
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Campus bans `sex net'
Until this month students and staff at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, United States, could tap into their campus computer network for sexually explicit pictures, including bestiality and...
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Freedom under attack
It is with deep concern that we have heard of the interrogation by the police authorities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, of George Aditjondro, lecturer in sociology at the Satya Wacana Christian...
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Pension penalty clause
In January 1994 I took up a new lecturing appointment with an "old" university and applied to join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Previously I was employed by a "new" university (formerly...
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Cranfield top dog in industry funding
You report (THES, November 4) that "The biggest beneficiary of industry's largesse is Nottingham, which pushed last year's top dog, Imperial College, into second". While not wishing to detract from...