Historic rebuff for researchers
THE future of a unique British centre for historical research in Germany is in doubt following a shock decision to close the internationally renowned Max Planck Institute for History at Gottingen,...
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Rectors talk tough on who pays for expansion
GREEK rectors have warned that unless the government finds more money for higher education they will recommend closing universities for the second time in a year. Last March rectors shut colleges but...
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President gets tough on draft
Latvian president Guntis Ulmanis has refused to sign the controversial national service law that sparked huge student protests last April because it does not go far enough. But the decision is no...
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Minority fights language ban
STUDENTS in the predominantly Albanian-inhabited town of Tetova in western Macedonia are continuing to defy the state by attending the illegal Albanian-language university. The government in Skopje...
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Stuart first
IT WAS interesting to watch Vernon Bogdanor define the trap into which he feels Roy Strong has fallen and then tumble in himself (THES, November 29). Surely a Stuart taking over from a Tudor in 1603...
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Law lecturer feeds Serbian pride
The war is not over for some people in the Balkans. Politicians have signed the Dayton agreement and soldiers put their guns away, but some university professors are still fighting the academic...
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Rankings rated at Maclean's
Yearly grumbling from universities seems to have moderated as results of a popular annual survey of Canadian universities appeared on news-stands this month. University officials still complain that...
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Zealous Zyl's call for change in Pretoria
He may be a white Afrikaner male, but there will be no "business as usual" at the University of Pretoria when vice chancellor elect, Johan van Zyl, takes over the reins of South Africa's largest...
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How v-cs could play a loan hand
The Australian senate was debating the higher education sections of the Howard government's summer budget this week. The package puts most of the burden of savings from higher education on students...
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Sense and vocational sensibility
AS THE British higher education system begins to delaminate because of its financing problems, hard-nosed employers are having doubts about some vocationally linked degree courses. At least so we are...
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Sheep may safely gaze
The sanity of the men from the ministry is the only thing at risk from the dissection of sheep's eyes The prohibition by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the use of sheep's eyes for...
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IT cannot replace eye-to-eye
Technology may save money for the cash-strapped OU but students may suffer Information technology means job cuts. Not always, not everywhere. But it is now impossible to pretend that the higher...
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Arts grads fit the bill
Michael Worton's article (THES, November 22) on the invaluable contribution of graduates in arts and humanities to society and the economy is timely given the Government's blinkered obsession with...
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Risky sums
BOB GUNN, in criticising Peter Knight's calculations of funding per student for teaching (THES, November 29), has introduced a concept that is irrelevant and even dangerous. It amounts to making...
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Teacher agency strikes wrong note
I AM MORE sympathetic to the Teacher Training Agency's general strategy for teacher training than many of Anthea Millett's critics (Letters, THES, November 22), but her defence of the agency's record...