Gordon Kirk (THES, January 6), raises two issues which need to be resolved regarding the external examiner system -- the duality of role as external examiner and course consultant, and the duality of...
Your items about quality assurance (THES, January 13) and the concern of vice chancellors, seems remote and out-of-tune with my recent experiences. I offer two examples. A former HMI who used to work...
Reading no fewer than three vice chancellors of "new universities" -- leading polytechnic directors as they were -- pursuing a common theme in a single THES (January 13) should alert politicians to...
In recent years there has been much debate about the funding of the higher education sector, yet surprisingly little about the equitability with which funds are allocated for teaching at an...
The new university of Tetovo, which will provide Albanian-taught higher education for Macedonia's Albanian ethnic minority, is continuing to prove an embarrassment to the Macedonian government. The...
Albanian communism was the most repressive and the most isolated of the various systems in force in central and eastern Europe. Albania initially had links with the Soviet Union, and subsequently...
Oxbridge students have long spoken about the college-based postdoctoral step of the academic ladder in exclusive, knowing terms. It is not a junior research fellowship but a "JRF". Soon, however,...
Last month Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, called on the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council to come up with proposals for external quality assurance. Producing them will take time...
One hundred and first, and last, in our series of literary sideswipes comes from that noted dispenser of joie de vivre and bonhomie, Friedrich Nietzsche, who demonstrated in Twilight of the Gods (...
Be honest. How many of you even knew that Canada produces wine? There will certainly be no excuse for students at Edinburgh's Centre for Canadian Studies and the city's Queen Margaret College who...
Coming soon to Regent's College, an international conference on paranoia and persecution with speakers including Norman Stone. Registration is Pounds 150 -- or Pounds 300 if you want a ticket for the...
The Association for Colleges recently came up with the idea of using soap operas to sell the idea of lifetime education. Antithesis is looking for prime time titles: Dundee University has already...
Tempers have finally flared in Gower Street, London, over arrivistes Imperial College, East London, Greenwich, et al. A letter from UCL's mailing machine this week bears the slogan "University...
The council charged with introducing national vocational qualifications has introduced heavily revised guidelines as a response to Government calls "to get NVQs right". John Hillier, chief executive...
The first hard evidence of growing drop-out rates is emerging from ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England statistics. HEFCE statisticians are working on institutional returns as the council...