Verona
Italy's supreme court is reported to have judged that 22 foreign-language lettori at the University of Verona were unfairly sacked from their jobs by rector Mario Marigo three years ago. They refused...
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Beijing
China is to increase higher education participation from 9 to 15 per cent of the population by 2010. The national budget for education will also increase by 1 per cent annually over the next three to...
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Minister resigns in cash scandal
PARIS Investigations into corruption and misuse of funds at France's biggest student social insurance society have led to the resignation of the country's economics and finance minister, Dominique...
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Fewer colleges 'at risk' of financial collapse
The number of colleges in financial crisis has dropped, the Further Education Funding Council's annual report confirms. Fourteen colleges have been removed from the "category C" financial danger list...
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Luanda
Lecturers at the National University of Angola in Luanda are so worried about the financial drain caused by the country's civil war that they have formed the Alliance for a Peace Movement in Angola....
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Ofsted praise for a near-lost cause
Liverpool University has received a glowing quality report from schools' inspectorate Ofsted for the teacher training provision it plans to scrap next year. All aspects of quality at Liverpool's...
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Albanian speakers wanted for classes
Noticeboards at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London announced an Albanian language course this term, but no classes are taking place as there is no teacher of Albanian. The...
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Number of rural homeless rises
Â鶹lessness is not confined to Britain's cities, a conference on tackling homelessness in rural areas heard yesterday. The Grantham conference, organised by researchers from Bristol and Cardiff...
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A two-to-on gender bender
Male academics outnumber women by almost two to one in universities, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Of the total 43,294 women, 35,694 are in England, 4,902 in Scotland, 1,891 in...
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Admission statement
I sensed no hostility from delegates to the new post-16 qualifications at the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conference ("Admissions officers dig in heels on A levels", THES, November 5...
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Admission statement
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' survey of universities on post-16 qualifications indicated that the sector welcomes the proposed post-16 reforms, will give weight to the proposed...
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RS and good science
A Royal Society working group report of September 1998 on genetically modified foods was incorrectly described as "extolling the potential benefits of the technology" (In the News, THES, November 5...
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Cambridge rent rises
Students "know all about rent policy", says Charles Larkum (Letters, THES, November 5). In fact, the proposed increases came to light only via a leak. The Cambridge University Student Union wants...
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Floored by flawed audit
Peter Williams claims that the Quality Assurance Agency report on Thames Valley University was "accepted in its entirety by the university's board of governors" (Whistleblower, THES, November 5). It...
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Ensnared by corporate power
Philip Fine reports on an Ottawa union conference on commercialisation Universities will lose their role as impartial observers of society if they continue on the commercialisation road, Canadian...