The Australian government is using millions of dollars of income generated by the Higher Education Contribution Scheme to reduce its own spending on universities. With more than Aus$500 million (...
Tension is rising as the comprehensive spending review nears its conclusion. Gordon Brown's statement last week held both threat and promise for higher education. On pay, restraint on public sector...
Information technology and biotechnology are transforming the world around us. The information technology revolution has created new types of organisation, new patterns of work and new ways for...
WEIGHTY matters on the higher education agenda will be affected by the outcome of elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly next Thursday for which the politicians are busy preparing. On the...
Anthony Fletcher describes how historians are benchmarking their subject for the new quality assurance watchdog THE CREATION of subject benchmarking information is the centrepiece of the Quality...
IN criticising Peter Singer, Richard Bond (THES, May 29) sets up a straw man. Singer's argument was that, while we should not commit the naturalistic fallacy of arguing from "is" to "ought", we are...
AS A mere administrator I have perhaps been unable to grasp the intellectual depth of Celia Kitzinger's article (THES, June 12). It does seem, however, that the strains highlighted in the female-to-...
LEE HARVEY mistakenly uses Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conferences to demonstrate the ever-rising costs of one-day conferences (THES, June 5). But the Pounds 282 (Pounds 240 plus VAT...
WANG Gungwu (THES, June 5) makes an interesting analysis of the reasons why in the field of Asian studies the North-South link has flourished much more than the South-South link. However, Professor...
Proponents of quality initiatives, such as John Randall (THES, June 12), are not engaged in "questioning received wisdom" nor are they heroic warriors against the elitism of "unaccountable...
YOU report (June 5) that the Quality Assurance Agency's proposed new system is being attacked from more than one side. There is a further problem with the way in which the system is being implemented...
The Fairness at Work white paper has aroused considerable interest among industrial relations and law academics in universities. But what does it mean for university workers? Although there are still...
THE GREEK supreme court has ruled that degrees from foreign universities are invalid if part of the studies take place at a branch in Greece. The ruling effectively blocks the way for the...
When is a voucher not a voucher? When it is a tertiary education tuition allowance. That, at least, is according to New Zealand's University Students' Association in response to their government's...
THE prospect of no more money for teaching in Gordon Brown's public expenditure reforms has cast a shadow over hopes for more science funding. Economists and university finance chiefs warned that the...