Latin lovers on their last legs
If what Rome sexologist Chiara Simonelli says is true, the old myth of the carefree and indefatigable Latin lover and of his passionately feminine counterpart is on its last legs. As a researcher in...
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Student intake up in east Germany
About 4,000 first-year students enroled in German higher education last year, according to a survey by Germany's Rectors' Conference, the HRK. This is roughly the same number as last year, and does...
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Danes squabble over research
A disagreement among the parties forming Denmark's coalition government has slowed down work on reshaping research. Research minister Frank Jensen had proposed a bill to reduce the six single...
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Accent on the negative confuses joint proposals
We have no wish to add fuel to the fire, but the letter from Natfhe's president and higher education chair (THES, February 23) is the second time the Association of University Teachers' academic-...
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Accent on the negative confuses joint proposals
I was greatly saddened by the negative, confrontational and confused tone of the Natfhe responses to the Association of University Teachers' proposals for joint membership (THES, February 23). The...
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Arbitrary? Anything but
Declan Cushley describes pre-admission aptitude tests for intending lawyers which we use in Northern Ireland as "arbitrary" (THES, February 16). Nothing could be further from the truth. I believe...
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Dearing's power of distraction
Today the reason why the Government has felt it necessary to set up the Dearing inquiry into higher education becomes evident in hard numbers. Virtually no institution of higher education in England...
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Do not publish - and be damned
The Syndics of Cambridge University Press have come under fire for not accepting a book in the field of social anthropology which studies the stresses of nation-building in modern Greece. The...
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Gandhi admirer crushed
In an episode straight out of one of Malcolm Bradbury's campus satires, a senior faculty member of New Delhi's elite Jawaharlal Nehru University is in trouble for writing love letters to the teenage...
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Rubber bullets fly in fees protest
Riot police using armoured cars, rubber bullets and tear gas ended a student demonstration and arrested 240 people in Argentina last week. Officers allegedly opened fire without warning and shot...
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Belgrade opens door to cooperation with Britain
In a parody of the nationalism sweeping the country at the beginning of the 1990s, a Serbian mocked his nationalism-intoxicated fellow-citizens by founding an Association for Reversing the Flow of...
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Shock for impulsive visitors
Security in Moscow State University's halls of residence will soon be tighter than in Soviet times. New regulations now being drafted will require proof of identity from all visitors, and in the case...
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Divided by a river of hate
The single most shocking thing walking along the front line in Mostar is the sight of huge Austro-Hungarian houses, burnt out and ravaged by shells, their facades destroyed by nearly a year of...
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Cushions to soften the heavy blows
Short and longer-term measures to maintain stability in higher education have been introduced into the various elements which make up the 1996/97 funding allocations. As a result, no institution will...
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Bird's eye view of oil overspill
At Dale Field Studies Centre, near the entrance to Milford Haven harbour, the director of studies is adding oil pollution studies to his course. Julian Cremona hopes that the 14 universities and...