Fire-bombs and fights scar election run-up
As general elections on April 21 draw closer, political tension is mounting among Italian student groups. At Rome's La Sapienza University, a lecturer's home was fire-bombed and there have been...
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Survey exposes absenteeism and lack of interest
Only one in three Greek university students attend sclasses regularly, according to a survey carried out by the school of philosophy of the University of Athens. The survey, based on the answers to a...
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The 30-year call for help
A protest by students and teachers at France's prestigious oriental languages institute is the latest twist in a long-running saga. Since 1964, its staff and pupils have been calling for more space...
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Selection perfection
The Research Assessment Exercise raises hackles everywhere. David Smith, below, argues against selectivity on efficiency and equity grounds. University departments are gearing up for the next...
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Disbelief in disunity
The AUCL rightly points out that academic staff in the new universities and colleges receive lower pay on average than their counterparts in the old universities and that this is caused by the fact...
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Disbelief in disunity
It would be unfair and disappointing to the ordinary members of Natfhe and the AUT to end the debate in these columns on such a note of bitter division. Each organisation should cease to defend its...
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Disbenefit in disunity
Those correspondents from the Association of University Teachers who have been confused by the Natfhe policy in higher education (Michael Leat et al, and Alan Carr, THES, March 1) should have paid...
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Atmosphere of condescension in SF review
Graeme Harper's sympathetic review of five books of recent science fiction criticism (THES, March 1) is marred by an (unintentional?) air of condescension in the final paragraph where he writes that...
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Firm stand on union changes
Given the importance of the issues raised in "Students wary of plan to turn union into firm" (THES, February 23), I should like to clarify some aspects relating to the recommendation that the...
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Invited guest editor
Dan Keohane's full and favourable review (THES, February 23) of the special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies ("A state of truce: Northern Ireland after 25 years of war" ERS, October 1995), did not...
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Why did dispute drag on?
In June 1994, Norman Dombey was elected by the academic faculty of the school of mathematical and physical sciences of Sussex University to serve on the senate of the university for three years from...
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Foresight Saga
David Smith and Howard Green worry that Technology Foresight is the missing link. Jean Jacques Rousseau abandoned his five children to the Hopital des Enfants-trouves, but said: "I know full well no...
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Cut off at the pass
Sir Ron Dearing this week describes the Robbins principle that "courses of higher education should be available to all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to...
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You can't revive a corpse
We recognise that reductions on this scale and suddenness are likely to cause difficulties for institutions," the chief executive of the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England has said. The...
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Tuition fees get mixed reception
Six months after Hungarian universities introduced tuition fees, students still have mixed feelings about the mandatory 2,000 forints (Pounds 10) monthly charges, writes Nick Holdsworth. In a society...