All-Russian foundation cuts red tape
Russia's first home-grown training foundation, designed to encourage the creation of a quality market-place for business, management and public finance education, has set up stall in Moscow and...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. What in heaven's name are we doing in some of our institutions of higher education, if...
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American graffiti rules
The United States' political and military presence in Asia and the Pacific assumed massive proportions after the second world war. General Douglas MacArthur ruled Japan like a viceroy until he...
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The European Commission
The European Commission is looking into claims that Britain may be in breach of European laws by allowing further education lecturers' terms and conditions to deteriorate. The Lecturers Employment...
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Funding council reviews method
The Further Education Funding Council has announced a two-stage review of its funding methodology. A working group with an independent chairman and including representatives from the further...
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Islamic extremist threat to gays
Fundamentalist Islamic groups pose the most serious threat to the safety of gay and lesbian staff and students on university and college campuses in Britain, a report says. Fighting Extremist...
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Imitators follow Imperial lead
Masters degrees in science communication are springing up across the country as science faculties encourage students to develop their communication skills. The grandaddy of them all is Imperial...
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Name names, v-cs ordered
Nigerian vice chancellors are under orders to name all staff involved in the five-month-old university strike, according to the academics' union. The union has discovered a secret memo from Munzali...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. Anna Tobin's account deserves better than the reply by Alan Macdonald (THES, August 2)....
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Not one of them
Historian Jonathan Clark exudes an air of patrician gentility, but the feeling she arouses in his peers are not always so exquisite. Simon Targett talks to a controversial conservative. Jonathan...
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Audit alert
The National Audit Office confirmed on Wednesday that it is monitoring an investigation launched by the Department for Education and Employment's European Social Fund Unit into what the DfEE...
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Quality gripes fail to stick
The Further Education Funding Council handled 26 complaints about the quality of college education last year. Grievances came from parents complaining their children had been wrongly expelled,...
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Son of Zog's man funds Albanian centre
History has had little good to say about the late King Zog of Albania, a politician who contrived to become a monarch in 1928 and was ejected by the Italians in 1939, spending the rest of his life in...
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Steiner's art views fail to sway Scots
A call by philosopher George Steiner for the Edinburgh International Festival to recognise the "intellectual challenge" of science promotes an unnecessarily pessimistic view of the gap between arts...
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Bogus degree scandal discovered
The University of Zululand has just found out that officials have been awarding students false degrees. Now students and management are at loggerheads over how to tackle the fraud. A tip-off two...