Czechs lay the ground for reform
The Czech Republic is at last reforming its higher education system and opening it up to some private sector participation. In 1990, Czechoslovakia was among the first countries in Eastern Europe to...
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Students force Thai PM to shift party plan
If Thai prime minister Chuan Leekpai was expecting a warm welcome from his alma mater last month, he was sorely disappointed. Students at Bangkok's prestigious Thammasat University, with little more...
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Future is no problem for IT
Student programmers from Canada have won the ACM International Collegiate Programming World Finals in Eindhoven, Holland. Teams were given eight problems and told to solve six of them in five hours....
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Winners and losers
I was surprised to see Plumpton College described as a loser in the allocation of extra HE places for 1999-2000 ("Participation plans win extra places", THES, April 9). We have been allocated exactly...
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Enabling technologies
Baroness Blackstone's disability bill brings college computers onto the human rights agenda, Alan Newell says. Information technology has an important part to play in supporting both staff and...
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Puttnam whizz-kid warning
Computers have given manipulative power to technicians but educators need to win back aesthetic control Tim Greenhalgh reports from CADE. Take a technically-gifted computer specialist, add a...
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However repugnant, let the voices be heard
On page 10 we publish an email exchange with the rector of Belgrade University. Here is a glimpse of a university under fire. Disentangling truth from propaganda is hard. Jagos Puric is a Milosevic...
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Scottish universities face shock of the new
Scottish higher education will wake up to new masters on May 7. It is in for a few surprises, says Lindsay Paterson. Scottish higher education institutions have long been suspicious of a Scottish...
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Are universities to go the way of shipbuilding?
A dismal scene: at one end of post-compulsory education in Britain are further education colleges that are mismanaged, in deficit, even corrupt. At the other are prestige institutions too broke to...
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Not worth the whistle
The "Whistleblowers" piece on the University of East London ("Department in a mess", THES, April 2) was a sorry piece of reporting. You seem unable or unwilling to differentiate between genuine...
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Player sent off for crying foul
I am pleased that your recent article "Middlesex sacks Clark" ("Whistleblowers", THES, April 9) mentioned in passing that the appeal governors acknowledged that I proved numerous "discrepancies" in...
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Player sent off for crying foul
As a former colleague of Suzi Clark's and a former governor of Middlesex University, it was with great sadness that I read of her dismissal. I was very surprised at Michael Driscoll accusing Ms Clark...
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Player sent off for crying foul
The final dismissal of Suzi Clark is an outrage. Strangely I see no articles in the Daily Mail or the Daily Telegraph complaining that academic freedom is under threat, and just as strange is her...
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Economics indicators
In seeking explanations for the difficulty in recruiting good British economists into universities and for the declining numbers of British students taking doctoral degrees in economics, Ron Amann ("...
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Wales was first
I was surprised to read that Newcastle University's medical school was the first in Britain to get "a quality thumbs-up" (Teaching, THES, March 26). Not so. The University of Wales College of...