Football party kicks into gear
Footballing philosophy is breathing new life into the ailing world of student politics in Germany, where Marx and Lenin once topped the league. The St Pauli Party is standing in student elections at...
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Checkpoint Venice for tourists
A TOURIST checkpoint for entry to Venice is among suggestions from the city's Ca' Foscari University for use during the 2000 Jubilee and Holy Year celebrations. Left-wing mayor Massimo Cacciari, who...
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Malaysia's future blueprint
A blueprint will be formulated soon on increasing student intake to Malaysia's institutions of higher learning, and determining which programmes are to receive priority for supporting national...
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New donors back commonwealth of learning
The Commonwealth of Learning has endured a hand-to-mouth existence since it was established by Commonwealth leaders nine years ago to use distance learning techniques to create and widen access to...
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Communist parties see yellow
India's only communist stronghold among universities - the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi - has fallen to the right-wing and pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party in the elections to its...
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South Africa jobs fear
South African universities and technikons are braced for a serious funding squeeze, which they say could force staff redundancies and spark widespread student unrest next year. The cabinet should...
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US loses pulling power
EXPRESSIONS of alarm over the static numbers of foreigners choosing to study in the United States have fallen on deaf government ears. There appears to be little appetite for challenging the...
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Roads scholars row for recruitment
A light breeze teases the college flags and scatters an early morning mist, exposing rowers practicing their strokes offshore. A vision of Oxford in Kentucky? That is the objective of one public...
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Mining for salt can be a fractious task
ONCE UPON a time numbers mattered more for what they symbolised than for what they counted. Even in our hard-headed age, their symbolic power is latent. Take a couple of fractions, like 1/260th and 1...
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Building a team for the future
A recent report from the Construction Industry Board has recommended the setting-up of a common foundation course for building industry students, in response to damning criticism of the United...
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Poetry of uncertainty
IN ACCUSING me of not being able to rhyme, (THES, November 15) Peter Knight clearly does not know his rhyme from his rhythm. My entry certainly rhymed, but as "verse in the 20th century has largely...
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Fire studies alarm call
THE RECENT tragic fire in Hong Kong and near disastrous incident in the Channel Tunnel are stark reminders of the devastating power of fire and the toll it can reap on those inadequately protected...
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Funding warning
PETER KNIGHT has produced an informative and thought-provoking analysis of comparative funding of teaching between universities in his article "The funding stakes" (THES, November 15). While there is...
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Wales needs top institute
IT IS HARDLY surprising that the Welsh principals are opposed to concentrating research in separate research institutions or elite universities in Wales, and think it would be academically and...
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CVCP should back, not attack, union action
MAY I express my anger at the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' position on the industrial action taken by university staff, as expressed by Diana Warwick (THES, November 22). If the CVCP...