Clive Booth appointment welcomed
UCET has welcomed the appointment of Clive Booth, former vice chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, to the chairmanship of the TTA. Professor Booth replaces Geoffrey Parker. "Clive Booth has a...
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Welsh field centre survives
GREGYNOG, the University of Wales residential centre, will have to adjust to a new funding system from next year, but should not be in danger of closure. Fears had been expressed for its future after...
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TB's relative values
SCIENTISTS are puzzled why the BCG vaccine against pulmonary tuberculosis appears to offer little protection in some tropical countries, while boosting immunity in higher latitudes. Researchers at...
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Golden bullet fired in river blindness war
"Nanobullets" made of pure gold, coated with genetically engineered DNA vaccines and fired into the skin using a "gene gun" may sound like some gadget out of a James Bond film, but researchers at the...
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Court opens lid on campus crime
A court has ordered student disciplinary proceedings in the United States to be open to the public following criticism that universities and colleges are using secret hearings to cover up crimes on...
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'Death' doctor carries on
A CANADIAN professor of medicine accused of murder and awaiting trial is back teaching at the hospital where she was arrested. Nancy Morrison, accused of killing a patient by injection, was arrested...
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Fees foster state spirit for saving
mounting tuition fees and a rising burden of debt on students in the United States has driven the families of more than 700,000 children to enrol in state savings plans where they pre-pay university...
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Red tape harms student chances
THOUSANDS of students are allegedly dropping out of university in Australia because of red tape and changes in the student support scheme, Austudy. The Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee has...
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Danes favour character development
ONLY 36 per cent of Danish sixth-form college pupils studying mathematics, sciences or technical subjects want a natural sciences or technical higher or further education. A survey of the life...
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No inquiry over 'piracy'
AN ITALIAN economist caught up in a welter of plagiarism charges has claimed that newspaper interest in his case was politically motivated because he is close to the government. The Italian Society...
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Purge threatens Spanish reform
SPANISH education minister Esperanza Aguirre has sacked one of her right-hand men, Fernando Tejerina, the secretary of state for universities, research and development. Her decision, stemming from...
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France to unlock war archives
HISTORIANS will finally gain freer access to French archives on the second world war period during which the Vichy government collaborated with the occupying Nazi authorities. Prime minister Lionel...
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Pitfalls of the market
The Dearing report will be greeted as a landmark in the changing history of British higher education, but it also marks a further significant step in a gathering debate about the future role of...
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Abolish that bureaucracy
The problem with Socrates (THES, July 18) is not simply that current arrangements are excessively bureaucratic. From the beginning of the Erasmus scheme, the arrangements have been such as to make it...
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Future analysis, or rhetoric?
As Dearing's dust settles, Roger Brown highlights the need for more research into higher education ONE OF the most striking aspects of the Dearing committee report is the enormous amount of research...