Rise of the cosmopolitan set
IN AN increasingly international world, more students than ever are spending some part of their studies at a university in a country other than their own. But despite a small increase in overall...
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A wealth in common
The university of the future There is something daring, even absurd, about a South African response to Dearing, a major educational report from a country that has been a founder member of higher...
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Cambridge ventures east
MALAYSIA is to set up a Commonwealth University near Kuala Lumpur in a joint venture with Cambridge University, writes David Jobbins. Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Adbul Razak, the Malaysian education...
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Polytechnics achieve elite status
MALAYSIAN polytechnics are no longer seen by employers or parents as second-class educational establishments producing second-rate graduates, according to Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, the...
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Coca-Cola deal to face court scrutiny
A student newspaper istaking the University of British Columbia to court in an effort to unlock details of a confidential advertising agreement with Coca-Cola. Two years ago, the university was...
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Minister backs full-fee plans
THE introduction of full fees for some Australian students next year will strengthen the nation's universities, according to federal education minister AmandaVanstone. The minister told a conference...
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Waseda hunts for graduates
Waseda University, one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious private institutions, has applied to the ministry of education in Tokyo for permission to open a new graduate school. The school will...
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Gagging order sticks in academic craw
ITALIAN academics are in uproar over a gagging order issued by the academic senate of Rome's La Sapienza University following the murder of a student. The university, the biggest in Europe, has...
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German ads up the ante
East German universities are discovering the power of advertising in an attempt to increase their popularity among western German students and to raise their academic standards. Advertising campaigns...
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Poverty pleaders found out
The Italian university ministry is to clamp down on students who claim fee rebates on grounds of family poverty, but in fact are not poor at all. The national daily La Repubblica drew a picture of a...
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Belarus boots out the orals
A revolution in the transition between school and university is underway in Belarus, where a British-backed experiment to introduce formal written exams in place of traditional oral testing is taking...
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Report ignores part-timers
Amid the widespread chorus of praise for Dearing, few have paused to notice its signal failure to address the disadvantages under which part-time students have laboured for so long. Contrary to what...
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Smothered voices
I support fully the sentiments expressed by Michael Kelly in Phil Baty's report on the funding crisis looming before departments of modern languages (THES, July 18). It seems perverse that the...
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Wise up before you dumb down
The lucky university departments which, having managed to please their friends in the research assessment exercise, are now enjoying disproportionately generous research funding, ought perhaps to be...
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Wise up before you dumb down
The notions of academic autonomy, of academic freedom, of institutional autonomy and of the maintenance of standards are very different and very difficult but clarity is not aided by the multilayered...