Call for extra school year for professions
AUSTRALIA selects its students too young for university courses such as medicine, law, accounting, engineering and teaching, a federal government advisory body has warned. The Higher Education...
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Malaysian expansion
PERAK will be the first of Malaysia's northern states to establish bilateral education links with Indonesia's Northern Sumatera when Premier Yayasan Perak College sets up a branch in Medan this year...
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Kosovo sit-in against Serbian
Ethnic Albanian students in the Serbian province of Kosovo have announced a "takeover campaign" to coincide with the opening of the university term this week. They appealed to diplomats and...
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Europeans protect university tradition
David Jobbins reports from Palermo on higher education's preparations for the 1998 Unesco world conference. EUROPEAN rectors have lent their support to a declaration on the future of Europe's...
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Let the rich help fund excellence
Higher education was this week's party pooper, with anti-fees demonstrators outside the Labour party's triumphant conference and a few dissenters inside brave enough to defy the party organisers. By...
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Soft money, hard battles in the lab
In our fourth and final article on the big issues in the Dearing debate Sir Arnold Wolfendale makes a plea for research that pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. In Sir Ron Dearing's foreword to...
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An awful warning
Universities and schools must not be taken down the same funding road as further education, say Patrick Ainley and Bill Bailey. Helena Kennedy, QC's report Learning Works, commissioned by the Further...
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Australian mantra to ward off (at least some) evils
Nicholas Barr describes the lessons to be learnt from Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme As the funding of British higher education has got into a worse and worse mess through the 1990s...
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Accounting entries
Your report "Into the big time with big bucks" (THES, September 12) wrongly attributes to the Institute of Chartered Accountants a preference for non-accountancy graduates when it comes to training...
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Don's Diary
Monday Go to Manhattan. Not large famous Manhattan but small, unknown Manhattan in Kansas. It is the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the wind erosion research unit of the United States...
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No need for title
Ray Monk's review article about Thomas Nagel (THES, September 26) was a model of clarity, exhibiting the virtues of analytical philosophy which he rightly seeks to preserve: rigour, precision and...
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Heavy loss at SSEES
Seven full-time academic staff in the University of London, all with unimpeachable scholarly credentials in the study of eastern Europe and Russia, are being threatened with "voluntary", ie...
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Halfpenny's worth
In your coverage of our survey of the state of teaching equipment (THES, September 26), you gave the impression that the report was solely produced by PREST. In fact it was an equal collaborative...
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Messages from the Dearing debate
I have been an advocate for the provision of a continuous curriculum post-16 for some time. If we are genuinely committed to improving access we must avoid unnecessary barriers to progression. As...
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Messages from the Dearing debate
Roger Brown (THES letters, September 12) argues for the need for collaboration between the various higher education sector bodies involved in the Dearing report's proposed Institute for Teaching and...