Merger at the ministry
Geoffrey Holland is right to point out that a key feature of the Department of Employment's structure that will be inherited by the new combined department is the regional office network. The...
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Merger at the ministry
One doesn't have to be a member of the great and the good to agree with Baroness Warnock's analysis of the confusion between education and training. When the former polytechnics became universities...
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Merger at the ministry
As an ex-DFE official who supported many of Geoffrey Holland's ideas about the relationship between education and employment, perhaps I might enter the debate between him and Mary Warnock (THES, July...
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Visa veto makes bad impression
Last week, in an airy lecture theatre at a university in the South West of England, a gathering of experts on the Gulf region was deprived of the opportunity to listen to a colleague speaking from...
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Fixed-term no freedom
It is not THES policy to carry anonymous articles. Academic life depends for its vitality on robust exchange of views, opinions, information and ideas without fear or favour and we expect people to...
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Agency of substance
At last. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has this week sent to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment its proposals for a single quality assurance agency for higher...
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For when you are 16 going on 19
The United Kingdom education system provides well for high achievers. Our universities have already exceeded the target for expansion set for the year 2000. The UK is now a leader among European...
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A virgin inheritance
In the inaccessible mountain villages of northern Albania, neighbouring Montenegro and Kosova, a number of women are living as men, having sworn an irrevocable oath to take on the male gender role...
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Sexism charge prompts closure
The University of British Columbia has closed admissions in the wake of a controversial inquiry that found "pervasive racism and sexism" in its postgraduate political science course. The sanction is...
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Fees paid for family perk set for chop
One of the great perks of being a professor in the United States is that your offspring are able to receive cut-rate or sometimes free tuition not only at the institution where you are teaching but...
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Research Summer
As teaching ends, the THES will, as in previous years, be giving special attention to the research community during the summer. As part of this programme, the heads of the research councils will each...
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Hackles rise as system is game for a change
A South African game reserve was the unusual venue for a gathering of university principals, who were being briefed about government plans to set up a National Qualifications Framework, a credit-...
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British PhDs runners up in cost league
Fees charged by United Kingdom universities for foreign students undertaking postgraduate courses tend to be higher than those of the UK's main competitors in Asia, according to an international...
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Guaranteed loans hitch
Proposals for a national student aid scheme in South Africa - targeting at least 70,000 students and costing between R600 million and R700 million (Pounds 165-Pounds 192 million) in its first year -...
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V-C job switch angers students
Hong Kong University has finally settled on a new vice chancellor after a long and difficult search for a successor to Wang Gungwu - but its latest choice has sparked fresh controversy among students...