Anti-corruption drive in Cambodia
Getting rid of corruption and violence in colleges are two of the main goals of Cambodia's new education minister as he tries to build a functioning education system. Cambodian students have long...
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Recapture of Kabul campus raises hopes
The campus of Kabul University, which for the past two years has been in the hands of the anti-government forces, was captured by government supporters at the end of September. The university, which...
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Stanford makes deal over fraud
Stanford University, one of America's foremost academic establishments, has made a deal with the United States government over an expenses fraud scandal in which flowers at the university's president...
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Increase of graduates pushes salaries down
New graduates from Australia's universities are being forced to accept jobs in fields which were previously the domain of school-leavers, according to the Graduate Careers Council of Australia. As a...
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Professor fired over outside interest
University of Toronto academic Herbert Richardson, the founder of a scholastic publishing service and a distance university based in Wales, has been fired from his teaching position. An academic...
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NZ home students `lack literacy'
Questions about the literacy of immigrant students in New Zealand have spread to students who have come through the country's school system. Albert Brownlie, vice chancellor of Canterbury University...
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German taboo breaks on fees
Student fees are back on the political agenda in Germany -- this time with more support than ever. University rectors from the states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria prompted the debate last week by...
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`Brokers' pocket poll winnings
After poll day came pay day for university "brokers" at German universities who speculated on the result of the country's general election on a stock exchange for voters. In the months running up to...
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Italian anarchists clash with right
A symposium on Louis Ferdinand Celine, the French author, at Turin University sparked hours of violent clashes between groups of students of the extreme left and extreme right. Police in full riot...
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Mossad link in Danish bugging saga
Lars Erik Allin, a senior administrator at the University of Copenhagen has admitted to having invented a story about the 1986 bugging of Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, ombudsman of the Danish Parliament....
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Beveridge retreaded
Last week in Prague, at a meeting organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, experts from the World Bank and the London c states to policy makers from 15 central and eastern...
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Access, equity and diversity
Stringent fiscal retrenchment allied with expanded numbers of students have directed unprecedented attention to quality issues in higher education. Without doubt the single most important determinant...
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Research adds spice to university menu
Two weeks ago (THES, October 14), we had a vice chancellor of a new university telling us that universities were about teaching and learning. Full stop. Last week, a pro vice chancellor asserts that...
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Living language, breathing culture
Robert Jeffcoate's article (Back-to-grammar-school, THES, September 30) is an extremely unhelpful contribution to the ongoing debate about the teaching of English. Most of it is a very tedious list...
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Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap
Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...