Angry minority withdraws support
Demands by ethnic Hungarians in Romania for an independent university have been fuelled by the new Hungarian government's emphasis on the needs of Hungarian communities beyond its frontier. Romania...
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Appeal for freedom from military administrators
Pressure is mounting on Nigeria's new military head of state to scrap the posts of sole administrator - the government appointees who have replaced vice-chancellors at five universities. Before...
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Labor is hailed as saviour of education
Australia's academics, vice-chancellors and students have welcomed the Labor Party's education programme, calling it a marked contrast to the conservative government's record on education spending....
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Indian tribes given bones for reburial
When the University of Nebraska agreed to return remains it held of more than 1,700 American Indians to 15 tribes, the move received widespread public support. After all, the university had been...
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Parties promise cash bonanza
If politicians' promises were anything to go by, Germany's higher education and research institutions could expect to be swimming in funds after next Sunday's general election, whichever party or...
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European Academic Software Award 1998 winners
Cut! Cinema studies. University of Stockholm. Chemvisu. Chemistry. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. http://sgich1. unifr.ch/ CHEMvisu.html Elm-Art. Computer science.Padagogishe Hochschule...
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Euro top ten in software
Dysphonia, Merlin and The Trunk are not characters from a Terry Pratchett novel but three winners in the 1998 European Academic Software Awards. The jurors spent a hardworking weekend in Oxford...
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Counting the cost of closure
The closure of the Fujitsu and Siemens semiconductor plants in the Northeast of England is bad news for local universities, but not as bad as for the hundreds losing their jobs. The problem is a...
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Admissions system on alert for Y2K bug
Personal computers and internal systems at the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service are to be checked for risks from the millennium bug (Y2K). Technicians have cleared the extensive network...
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English spoken here
Peter Deussen wants to place south-west Germany at the hub of a global virtual university. John Davies probes the project's strengths. Peter Deussen is a man with a vision. A professor in the...
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Ready to stroll down quality street - at last
The new quality regime for higher education is almost with us. The Quality Assurance Agency and its key customers, the higher education funding councils, including the Scottish funding council, which...
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Business of being allies
Business schools are in the vanguard of the creation of more entrepreneurial universities, so let us use them. says Christopher Grey. Business and management schools are an important part of the...
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In short...
As an ageing academic, never has the horror of advancing years been more graphically brought home to me than by reading that, as a result of Alzheimer's disease, one of Iris Murdoch's favourite...
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In short...
I do not believe that my pointing out that Herbert Simon's use of an invalid mathematical argument "completely misses the point" about self-consistent prediction, as claimed by Steven Durlauf in his...
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Tedious science
The two respondents (THES, September 18) to Simon Jenkins's article (THES, September 11) failed to address one of his main points - that students have been voting with their feet and choosing to...