Tuition fees get mixed reception
Six months after Hungarian universities introduced tuition fees, students still have mixed feelings about the mandatory 2,000 forints (Pounds 10) monthly charges, writes Nick Holdsworth. In a society...
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Debt and divided loyalties in funding crisis
Peter Medgyes defines his life as a senior Hungarian university official as increasingly schizophrenic. As vice chancellor of Hungary's oldest university Eotvos Lorand (ELTE) in Budapest, he...
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Perpetual students warned
Students who linger over their degrees in southern and western states of the United States may face penalties if they fail to complete their studies within the traditional four years. Most US...
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Election jitters prompt job shift
New Zealand has a new education minister following a cabinet reshuffle in the lead up to the country's first proportional representation election. Long-serving education minister Lockwood Smith has...
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Review as a mug's game
Having just engaged the professional services of a solicitor at Pounds 125 per hour, the absurd position that academics who publish in professional journals have procured for themselves was brought...
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Toothsome prospects
Something is about to be done about the plight of contract researchers. The number of fixed-term contract researchers in higher education mushroomed between 1980 and 1993 from around 8,000 to 18,000...
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Modernisers race against time
As the funding crisis in Hungary's public sector deepens, government and higher education officials are working frantically on legislation to speed up the modernisation of institutions. A substantial...
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Black staff reject Wits verdict
An inquiry by a top South African lawyer has cleared 13 senior academics at the University of Wi****ersrand of allegations of misconduct levelled against them by William Malegapuru Makgoba, the...
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China loosens state grip on graduate job market
This year China will see a total of 8.7 million higher education students, of which 8.3 million will be studying at first degree, and 360,000 at postgraduate level. University and college graduates...
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Design for a table of the mind
Researchers working on consciousness could benefit greatly from incorporating notions of design employed by engineers and software creators into their work, according to Aaron Sloman of Birmingham...
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Solar sauna set to multiply
Throughout the icy temperatures of this winter, there has been a small haven of warmth in Scottish higher education. Tariq Muneer, lecturer in energy engineering at Napier University, has designed a...
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Divorced dads take their role loss hard
An alarming picture of despair, frustration and conflict is revealed in research into the impact of divorce on fathers. As interest in the royal split reaches fever pitch, the Waleses could do worse...
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More women than men develop cancer
Women are developing cancer more frequently than men for the first time since records began, a new report shows. Over the past 20 years, young women's cancers have increased fivefold, says Colin...
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Men retain grip on TV industry
Men dominate top independent television production posts in the United Kingdom, though high-flying women are helping other females climb the career ladder, a new report reveals. Helen Baehr, at the...
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Mr Fix-it to put work first
In his book about how to be a minister, published in 1980, the Labour MP Gerald Kaufman singled out a then unknown civil servant, Ron Dearing, for special mention. As a deputy secretary at the...