Engineering leader attacks research cuts
BRITAIN's structural engineering, once the most advanced in the world, is languishing because of lack of research funds, a leading academic has claimed. Nutan Subedi, senior lecturer in Dundee...
Search
-
-
Insurance firms facecost of genetic secrets
People who know they have adverse genetic traits, but are not compelled to declare it to insurance firms, could expose the industry to extra costs, according to a study by Angus Macdonald of Heriot-...
-
Grants cut hits postgrads
Australian universities will have to slash the number of postgraduate students taking coursework programmes over the next two years because of federal grant cuts. Nearly 30,000 or almost a third of...
-
Aussies look at Irish heritage
Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne has struck a unique agreement with Dublin Trinity College in Ireland to enable postgraduate student exchanges between the two institutions, writes Geoff...
-
Dorms offer taste of the good life
When Christian Riser told his classmates at the University of Maryland that he lived on a dormitory floor where smoking and drinking were banned, they asked him what on earth he did for fun. "People...
-
Women break the traditional mould
Women now outnumber men at universities and junior colleges in Japan, according to the latest education ministry figures. Some 48.3 per cent of female high-school graduates are taking courses in...
-
Historian's Nazi expose rejected
A review published under the auspices of the ministry of the economy and finance has rejected a scholarly article on links between French firms and the Nazi war machine. The rejection came last year...
-
War of new campus
The University of Alicante and the Valencian regional government are locked in a bitter struggle over plans for a new institution in the city. In an outbreak of open warfare, Andres Pedre$o, Alicante...
-
Vocational reform cannot afford delay
Throughout October there has been a bitter row rumbling over national vocational qualifications. How many were taking them, how many achieved them, had they done more than displace existing...
-
Science suffers from smiling suits in studios
One year on from the Wolfendale Report on Public Understanding of Science a number of initiatives have been enacted to encourage scientists to leave the safety of their research labs and explain...
-
V-cs unilaterally disarmed
The Labour party has shot the vice chancellors' fox. The leaders of UK universities, in collaboration with higher education unions and the National Union of Students, have been campaigning vigorously...
-
Steps to quality assurance
Roger Brown, in a speech to the Managing Universities programme, assesses progress The publication of the draft final report of the Joint Planning Group and its acceptance by the Committee of Vice...
-
Snobbery along the binary line
AS HEAD of a philosophy department in a former polytechnic, where one philosophy programme was validated by Baroness Warnock in the days of the Council for National Academic Awards, I was intrigued...
-
Snobbery along the binary line
YOU publish Tony Hepburn's account of studying history at Cambridge in the same issue as Mary Warnock's attack on university status for the ex-polytechnics. In the former, old-style university...
-
Wrong umbilical chord
I hope that the seriously smug Jennie Bristow ("Students who can't cut the umbilical cord", Personal View, THES, October 18) continues to cope so masterfully with "life" as neither Sussex nor Kent...