PFI tests water
FINANCE. Not too many people could have spoken knowledgeably about the Private Finance Initiative this time last year. That is hardly surprising. It was only launched in higher education in March....
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Office upheaval
No sooner had Sir William Stewart vacated his post as the Government's chief scientific adviser, symbolically ending a period of big change in science policy, than another upheaval ensued, with the...
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V-cs take controls of joint audit vehicle
QUALITY. A quality breakthrough finally came in September of this year when vice chancellors won the three-year battle with the funding councils for control of the quality assurance process in...
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The 'nous' test
QUALIFICATIONS. Tomorrow's university students could be taking degree standard vocational qualifications, having completed a predominantly vocational education at school. Government proposals for NVQ...
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Newspeak trips off all tongues
POLITICS. Westminster watchers in further and higher education could be forgiven for feeling in a spin after 1995. For there was something decidedly circular about the arguments advanced by...
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Loans boycott threatens banks
STUDENTS. Last May the National Union of Students called an extraordinary conference to debate student funding. It promised to be a watershed event, marking a radical change in NUS policies. It...
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To forgive but not forget
SOUTH AFRICA. F rank Mdlalose," called out a white man in received English pronunciation. A cheer erupted from the almost all-black audience seated amid the Victorian splendour of the Durban City...
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Lost languages gain a strong voice
EASTERN EUROPE. The year 1995 could go down in history as the year in which the validity of a Polish presidential election was challenged over whether or not the successful candidate could be said to...
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Giving up the day job
Fed up with the research assessment exercise? Is it your New Year's resolution to get out ofhigher education? Five former academics tell The THES how their extracurricular activities provideda means...
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Peeling back the mandarins
David Walker talks to Sue Richards, a professor of management who prescribes therapy for the public sector. There can be few organisations anywhere within the public sector which have not in recent...
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Honorary degrees
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY DLitt: David English, chairman, Associated Newspapers. MA: Barbara Chamberlain, former academic secretary of the university. UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE DLitt: Alan Davie,...
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Bob sled speed hope
The prospects of British success in the next winter Olympics will get a boost this week as trials begin in Austria of a new skeleton bob sled designed at Nottingham University. Combining research...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service is...
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Caught in the act of balancing
Intellectual Property Law
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Genocide in our time
Season of Blood - The Rwanda Crisis 1959-94 - Genocide in Bosnia