Europe looks to student market
British vice chancellors and principals are much more optimistic than their continental peers that student numbers will grow beyond the year 2000, a pan-European survey has found. Out of 30...
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Innovate or atrophy
Charles Leadbeater warns academics that ministers view them as insular and irrelevant A gulf of distrust and mutual misapprehension has opened up between the government and intellectuals in recent...
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Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON BAILIFFS evicted 35 students on Tuesday from buildings at the...
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Tories need a vision to stay on Earth
ASTHEY gathered in Blackpool this week, the Tories resembled nothing so much as Mir - an ageing, crumbling listed building in outer space without a working guidance system, from which bits...
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Catastrophe converter
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The THES examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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BAe set for virtual take-off
A prospectus for British Aerospace's "virtual university" should emerge in the late spring and the venture is on schedule for launch late this year, says its vice-chancellor Geraldine Kenney-Wallace...
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Courses for menu-driven TV
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...
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Lives bound by parties and gifts
Women of China - Women of the long march
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Parties go to battle on skills
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. THE POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
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Could these nightmares ever happen to you?
University of Armageddon Over-enthusiastic recruitment has swollen Armageddon's new intake. Administrative strategy last year was directed at slimming the salary bill to release funds for new...
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China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Wars: how to start and stop one
Strategic Coercion - Why Wars Happen
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...