Parties clash over ethnic university
THE MAIN political party representing Romania's Hungarian minority has renewed its attempt to re-establish a Hungarian-language university in Transylvania. But the move has met with opposition at...
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Bavaria blocks eternal student
BAVARIA has passed a sweeping reform of higher education to make universities more competitive and put a stronger emphasis on quality and achievement. The German state's reform, which will come into...
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Women's way with words
The Academie Francaise, guardian of the French language, is threatening a constitutional challenge to ministerial orders to feminise education jobs and titles. In a circular that takes effect this...
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Unions take on Italy's baroni
THE Italian national confederation of trade unions has called for radical reforms in the way academics are employed. Possibly for the first time in Italian history, the unions are also demanding cuts...
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Cloistered women seek cash
INDIA's University Grants Commission is backing a plea for full state financial support from a unique women's educational institute in isolated Rajasthan, where a 60-year-old policy of cloistered...
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Right-winger in unity call
AN extreme rightwing religious student has been elected head of Bar-Ilan University's student union more than two years after the assassination of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by one...
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Union takes hard line on 'laughable' claim
Australian academics are demanding a 19 per cent wage rise, a maximum 36-hour week and at least 20 weeks a year free from class contact with students - not counting annual leave and public holidays....
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United front aims to end casual labour
A century ago, dockers who wanted work had to assemble at the dock gates in the early morning and take their chance of a day's work. Lucky ones might get a few weeks or months. Today, would-be...
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Wellcome backing for basics
Alison Goddard reports on a private-sector investment of Pounds 400 million in British basic research THE WORLD's largest medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust, made a U-turn this week to...
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Vice-chancellors sell out infantry
It would be churlish not to celebrate extra money for education. But it would be naive to take the headline figures at face value. The presentation is irritatingly slick. There is double counting and...
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Raw material, tainted cash
In the knowledge-based, weightless economy developing around the world, research is the raw material for growth. Demand for ideas is huge and so is the response. The numbers of people employed in...
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Thirteen ways to treat an external examiner
1 Always send incomplete drafts of exam papers to be approved. The draft should be full of grammatical errors, missing parts of questions, inconsistent numbering and ambiguities. Illegible hand-...
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One that got away from the fish laboratory ...
I have turned my back on earning a living in the lab after almost seven years as a scientific researcher. The decision was not easy and has left me feeling like a lapsed scientist, just as I lapsed...
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And one that stayed
Andy Pitsillides is in his first lecturing post, teaching anatomy. He has contemplated leaving science but stayed - partly because he was offered the lectureship after his second postdoctoral...
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RAE forces us to fudge
Having read two pieces on "abuse" in the research assessment exercise (THES, July 3 and July 10), I feel moved to respond. I should start by pleading guilty to being one of those "managers" in...