Colleges rely on cheap labour
PART-TIME teachers now account for more than half of all university and college staff in the United States. Their presence helps institutions cut costs but has angered students and unions. There are...
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Open road to Hong Kong
THE NUMBER of universities in Hong Kong will have risen from two to seven in just ten years with the recent upgrading of the Open Learning Institute. A government spokesman said that the awarding of...
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Australia's war on sex bias
The Australian government has attacked universities for failing to swell the ranks of women in executive positions. Federal education minister Amanda Vanstone said that although women made up 46 per...
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Cash offer to keep professors at work
FERENC Takacs moonlights from his teaching job in the school of English and American studies at Budapest's ELTE University in the most literal sense. Most weeks the expert in Irish literature treads...
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Axed entry exams raise a storm
Greek education secretary Gera-simos Arsenis has announced that the Panhellenic examinations for university entrance are to be abolished with open entry from the year 2000. But he has not said where...
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Serbian blames Uncle Sam
VOJISLAV Seselj, once a dissident academic and now leader of the extreme-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, has accused the United States of financing the Student Protest 96/97 movement. The leaders...
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Emerald tiger seeks help
The Irish government is to invite tenders from colleges in the rest of the European Union to help meet emerging skill shortages in computing and languages. It fears that Irish universities and other...
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Take the purse but cut the strings
Just what is a university? One school of thought says that it is, in the vocabulary of the European Court, an "emanation of the state," largely paid for by the government, having a licence to trade...
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Should codes of ethics go on the map?
Should learned societies and professional bodies have codes of ethics? Some argue that all such societies need to identify a common code of ethical behaviour that marks them out as distinct and gives...
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Should you choose to accept it...
Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government dogma? Researchers beware: the Department of Trade and Industry wants you as a new recruit, warns John Griffith. We are facing...
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Collision courses
Hopeless contradictions in funding council policy point to the conflicting demands of government pressure, argues G. R. Evans. Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government...
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'The only option is to go private'
Excellence plus full funding could equal a degree costing Pounds 50,000 or more. Ron Johnston says. The vice chancellors of Cambridge, Edinburgh, University College London and Warwick have declared "...
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Unwanted science dictates
NICHOLAS Humphrey's diatribe in Perspective (THES, February 28) was a staggering piece of myopic hypocrisy. He argues that "science does not cajole, it does not dictate" and that it allows us to "...
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Unwanted science dictates
PROFESSOR Humphrey's ill-reasoned argument for mandatory science instruction contains at least three fallacies. First, he presumes that a belief in God is tantamount to a disbelief in science. Not...
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A nursing remedy
I HAVE followed two seemingly separate issues with interest: the debate on the merits of nurse education's wholesale arrival into higher education establishments (THES, February 14) and the teaching...