Noah's Ark case leaves professor high and dry
LAST April, when the Federal Court in Sydney began hearing what became known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", Justice Ronald Sackville asked, "Where will we start?". The senior counsel for...
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Visa pain for eager Chinese
AN Australian university claims that Britain is trying to take advantage of the federal government's refusal to admit a number of Chinese students by suggesting they could enrol in British...
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Election result gives hope to Canadian universities
WHILE Canadians have re-elected Jean Chretien and his Liberal government, they have dropped him into a legislature that looks completely different. Upon calling the election, the centrist Liberals...
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France aims to improve quality
TAKING over a new "super" ministry embracing education, research and technology last week, geophysicist Claude All gre promised there would be "no shocks" to the education system, but "reforms to...
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New government to favour FE
FURTHER education will benefit from the new administration in the Irish Republic following last week's general election, which resulted in a hung Dail - the lower house of parliament. All the main...
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Beloved 'bac' shows signs of stress
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation AS Nearly half a million French school students prepare to take the baccalaureat, this educational...
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Fast-track plans annoy old guard
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Modest proposals by the Japanese education ministry for a fast-track system in which above-average...
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Italy weaned from free access
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Despite legal hurdles and furious protests from the student left, Italian universities are increasingly...
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Medicine's balance needs readjusting
NINETEEN ninety-seven is an important year for medical education. Medical schools have recently come through the research assessment exercise with considerable misgivings and some trauma. Sir Rex...
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Thank God it's PFI-day
The review of public/private partnerships due today should kick-start university building projects which have been waiting for new guidance, say David Cuckson and Peter Walters Friday the 13th may be...
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On your marks for changes in the exam system
The anonymity of candidates is not sufficiently protected by the substitution of numbers for names, says Roger Watson Anonymous marking has become almost universal in higher education in the past ten...
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What's the problem?
Although Terry Hyland (THES, May 2) complains that transferable skills cannot be defined, I think I can offer a few suggestions. I would define communication skills as the ability to talk/write to an...
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A volunteer to leave
Concerning my leaving Southampton Institute in August of this year (THES, May 16). I have not been asked to take voluntary redundancy as you stated twice. In the normal course of events, I would have...
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Why we do not need a Hera
There is no doubt that existing salary and careers structures for academic and academic-related staff are seriously flawed, fail to meet elementary equal opportunities criteria and are open to...
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Why we do not need a Hera
The recent academic pay survey (THES, June 6) provided a sensation of "deja vu all over again" (to quote a prominent football manager). Those surveys showing university pay lagging behind comparable...