Don's diary
Day 1 The Bibliothe que Nationale de France Francois Mitterrand opened 1,600 places to the public in the summer. The garden level (2,000 places) opened to researchers on October 9. I arrive a week...
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Eye witness
Controversy and politicking accompanied the release of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report. The African National Congress unwisely attempted to gag the commission. Accusations...
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China widens its red road
China has chosen a tough bureaucrat to steer Zheijang University's merger. Wang Gungwu looks at the history The city of Hangzhou in Zheijang province, China, has welded four of its universities into...
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World watch
Students from mainland China have enrolled at Hong Kong universities for the first time since the British handover in July 1997. Two Beijing high school leavers have enrolled at the Hong Kong...
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World watch
Staff at France's national library last week voted to end an 18-day strike that started less than a fortnight after it opened to researchers following its three-year move from central Paris to a...
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World watch
The University of Auckland has turned to industry for its new vice-chancellor. John Hood, a senior executive of Fletcher Challenge for 17 years and a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, will start next...
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World watch
South African students face steep fee rises next year as universities struggle to make ends meet. While tough debt-collecting measures have reduced a total R500 million (Pounds 50 million) student...
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Private students get loans
Kenya's higher education loans board has introduced loans for students at chartered private universities. The board has set aside five million shillings (Pounds 50,000) for poorer students at the...
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Views of Quebec
The article on Quebec (THES, October 30) represented the pro-Canadian, federalist view. The term "sovereignty" is not a "word change" of the past few years. The term was used in the first referendum...
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Street protest over oil plight
Forty-eight hours after Nigeria was hit by violent demonstrations by Rivers State government workers, university students from the length and breadth of the south-eastern region of the country poured...
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Joint declarations
Leslie Iversen reviews the case for legalising cannabis for pleasure, while Lord Perry argues that it should be available for medical use For fun Cannabis has been used medicinally for more than 2,...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Valentine Cunningham warned that the study of English risked being swallowed up by its upstart offspring, cultural studies Christine Geraghty. Head of department Media and...
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Experts pick best of the new SA crop
The first newspaper survey ranking South African universities and technikons has revealed a rapidly transforming and expanded system, suffering a financial squeeze and still divided along racial and...
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Spain's top philosopher forced into retirement
Philosophy students at the University of Oviedo, northern Spain, are on strike in protest at the forced retirement of one of the their best-known professors. Gustavo Bueno, 74, described by...
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Ukraine's learned society comes home
Ukraine's oldest learned society, the Schevchenko Scientific Society, held an odd celebration in the western city of Lviv last month - its 125th anniversary. The society organised an international...