Emigres seek Polish recognition
Poland is expected shortly to recognise degrees from the Polish University in Exile (PUNO), the London-based higher education institution for Polish emigres founded after the war. A law under debate...
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Swiss cantons cheesed off
Swiss higher education is suffering from the same malaise afflicting most of its neighbours - rising demand, soaring costs and dwindling resources. The key factor is the increasing load of students...
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Italian degrees reform 'made in the USA'
Italian universities may soon switch to a system of accumulated credits towards a degree in place of exams, Paul Bompard writes. University minister Luigi Berlinguer made the announcement while...
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Campus agrees to end crime cover-ups
A SECOND United States university has decided to make public the names and records of students involved in disciplinary proceedings in response to mounting concern at college crime. Forced by a...
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Royals bolster tradition
The Buganda kingdom of Uganda is to establish a university at a former military barracks. Mengo University will be the first of its kind to be set up by traditional monarchs in Uganda. Former...
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...
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Canada cuts academic posts by nearly 10 per cent
Quebec universities have lost 10 per cent of their professors, according to a recent survey by a provincial teachers association. According to the Federation Quebcoise des Professeures et Professeurs...
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Bleak picture for young in promised land
ALARMING statistics that show an increased drop-out rate from university courses have coincided with the revelation from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service that there has been a 6 per...
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Plan for the worst, hope for the best
HIGHER and further education's wish for 1998 must be that the planning blight of 1997 will end. 1997 was a year of waiting - for the election, for reports, for white papers and for money. It was also...
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Abroad thoughts home in on benefits of Russian year
Twelve months learning the language and culture of another country sets students up for life - and work, says Pieta Monks MY "Russian" year abroad in the early 1970s was interesting: five months of...
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Trouble in paradise parking lot
Germans are protesting because universities have become dumping grounds for a whole generation, argues Jennie Brookman THE MOST remarkable thing about the student strikes and demonstrations sweeping...
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Net gains
CHRIS WILLIAMS, the cancer network coordinator, says: "The network is aimed at everyone. The Cochrane network is one way they will be able to get at much of the information available" (Medical...
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Graduate pleads for library pass
AS a member of convocation and a graduate of University College, London, I used to use the libraries of the University of London and University College without payment. I was a student for 11 years,...
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Ghost with a market
THE alarm you report from Peterhouse about a ghost is surely misplaced (THES, December 19). The college is rather to be congratulated on the spirit's appearance. When an undergraduate there in the...
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Case for fee control
In the United States tuition charges vary dramatically between and within universities. This convinces me that our own government will be well-advised to maintain strong control over tuition-fee...