Ontario allows heads to set fees
Ontario's education ministry has freed universities to raise tuition fees for graduate and professional programmes by whatever the market will bear. But, although the province's university presidents...
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Reveal costs, colleges urged
A NATIONAL commission on rising college costs in the United States has warned colleges to put their own houses in order or risk having outsiders do it for them. Most academic institutions have...
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Lecturers' leader arrested
AN OFFICIAL of the banned university lecturers' union at the University of Benin in northern Nigeria has been detained by armed police and taken to an undisclosed destination. Frank Dimowo, branch...
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Nigeria fears avian flu epidemic
SCIENTISTS fear the spread of avian flu in Nigeria after cases were diagnosed by three university-based doctors, Tunde Fatunde writes. This month 1.2 million birds contaminated by the avian flu were...
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American president for Beirut
THE FIRST American president of the American University of Beirut to be based on campus since his predecessor Malcolm Kerr was killed in 1984 takes up his post this month. John Waterbury, who began...
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Intimations of immortality
The "spontaneous reaction" to new developments in cloning technology described by Hilary Putnam in his Amnesty lecture (page 18) this week says much about human hopes and fears. The possibility of...
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The final smokescreen
THE WHITE paper on freedom of information, Your Rights to Know, published last month, was warmly welcomed, and rightly so. It seeks, in the prime minister's words, to break down "the traditional...
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Oxford lags behind old rival
The North Report on Oxford University was finally published this week. So long awaited, it could hardly help being an anticlimax. It scarcely, for example, discusses the all-important matter of the...
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Transparency gives lead in international market
Two groups of senior international educationists were in Britain last week to learn about reform and quality assurance. Rebecca Walton reports. THE UNITED KINGDOM is seen worldwide as a natural...
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The cash for references debate
Valentine Cunningham is so overwhelmed by the number of references he has to write he is considering charging for them. How valuable are they? he asks. After all, he never gets any feedback. THERE IS...
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Unhealthy to merge
The merger of the Association of University and College Lecturers into the Association of University Teachers is a success because both unions had very similar policies and were financially healthy....
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Medical solution
Undergraduate medical education is about to descend yet again into a period of turmoil and indecision. Clinical academics are concerned about the financial squeeze from the National Health Service...
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Peer review rejects the dissenters
The debate on peer review has to go beyond the way research councils distribute their funds. But your suggestions (THES, leader, January 9) for expanding the debate do not take it very far. The...
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Peer review rejects the dissenters
In the recent correspondence on peer review the arguments are all about club membership. "Change the rules, get in some new members (more like us) and all will be better" seems to be the prevailing...
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Peer review rejects the dissenters
The discussion on peer review and the role and scope of the RAE raises interesting questions for an applied scientist. After 15 years as an engineering geologist in industry, publishing one case...