Civil servants' heavenly fall
Tokyo. SENIOR Japanese civil servants are sidestepping golden jobs in the business world when they retire to take lecturing posts with leading universities. Yoshimasa Nishimura, former director...
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Malaysia move to catch market
MALAYSIA is to grade public and private universities and colleges as part of its campaign to become a world-class centre for education. The south-east Asian country has ten state universities, four...
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Private sector races across Mongolian steppes
Privatisation and market forces in higher education have penetrated as far as the homeland of Genghis Khan. A package of education reforms introduced on the eve of the new academic year includes the...
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Room with a view for Chelsea's security guards
Boston. THE GIFTED students who attend Stanford University often require special accommodation. But this semester may be the first time a new student needs two rooms - one for herself and her...
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China upsets degree awards
Montreal. A LAW doctorate proffered to Chinese president Jiang Zemin has sparked a debate over who should get honorary degrees in Canada. The University of Victoria senate voted last month to award...
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V-cs go it alone in Asia market
Melbourne. AUSTRALIA's top universities fear their share of the world market for students is slipping because of bad publicity in Asia. They identify two causes: adverse publicity around the anti-...
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Right funds anti-PC drive
Boston. TWELVE of America's biggest conservative foundations are pouring money into fellowships that support like-minded students and scholars, academic conferences, faculty chairs and scholarly...
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End of Labour honeymoon?
In our second of our series recalling the big issues in the Dearing debate John Ashworth considers university management IT IS time to get back to basics. The primary job of the committee of inquiry...
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Imagination and inspiration, please
This week Britain's university leaders have been meeting in private conclave in Strathclyde. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals have a number of thorny issues to confront. What are they...
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Whither Scotland?
Peter Scott looks at the post-referendum prospects for universities north of the border What are the prospects for Scottish universities in the context, first, of the likely evolution of the Union...
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League tables merit improvement
Geoffrey Alderman argues for a more rational, transparent and credible system of comparing universities and their achievements The Dearing report gives on the new Quality Assurance Agency the task of...
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Long-term fees gain
In his article, "Blunkett's funding muddle" (THES, August 29), Ben Jackson criticised the stance of the National Union of Students and student unions across the country for accepting the loss of...
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Little room for error
With regard to "A work of art that's brutal to work in" (THES, September 5), there are a number of matters to dispute. First, when you first approached Sandra Dawson, it was with a request that we...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans is to be congratulated on raising the tone of the history and theory debate ("Truth lost in vain views", Perspective, THES, September 12). However, as an historian who "does" both...
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Truths and facts in history
PROFESSOR Evans is in no way to blame for linking Michel Foucault to the postmodernist label because so many others have done so; but he is mistaken all the same. I believe that Foucault's only...