Hats off to Luton
You report (THES, November 3, 1995) that not a single institution has received a grade 4 for the quality assurance and enhancement aspect of provision under the new HEFCE procedures. The University...
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Built-in rewards
May I provide additional information to your article (THES, October ) which stated "a new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of disruption caused by...
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Marginal benefit
Margins matter. Any economist could have told you so years ago, but now the entire academic community is learning that reality as a consequence of the research assessment process. The RAE, which...
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Killer's campus cancels classes
Classes were cancelled this week at Israel's Bar Ilan University, the university attended by the student who shot prime minister Itzhak Rabin this week. Speaking shortly after the assassination, the...
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Hard work for students
My immediate reaction to Gordon Conway's comment in Don's Diary (THES, October ) that "employment of up to 15 hours a week ought not seriously to interfere with (undergraduates') studies" was that...
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Open savings, hidden costs
It will not be too long before every senior common room echoes to the jargon of the private finance initiative. BOOT for build-own-operate-transfer, DBFO for design-build-finance-operate, FM for...
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Smoother learning par for the course
Throughout higher education there has been a tide of development that favours the module as the basic unit of student learning rather than the more traditional course. Among the perceived benefits of...
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Strike over fee proposals
Following several weeks of rumours and the failure of last minute negotiations with officials from the ministry of education, the Israeli student union staged a one-day strike at all universities and...
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Gaza's eye on future
Paul Jeffrey assesses the mood in Gaza, where Al-Azhar University looks forward to peace, and in shocked Jerusalem Gaza's two higher education institutes, the Islamic University and Al-Azhar...
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Portuguese close ranks
Rectors in Portugal are to meet with university lecturers' unions to try to hammer out a common position on higher education to present to the incoming Socialist government. The prospect of wide-...
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Minister faces race charge
(Photograph) - Court proceedings went ahead this week against Jean de Boishue, the French secretary of state for higher education, over allegedly racist passages in a book he published last May....
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Moscow seeks to energise science
Russian premier Viktor Chernomyrdin has set the development of science as a state major priority, after the first meeting of the government's new Commission for Science and Technical Policy. The...
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Greek fox charms chancellors
Greek university chancellors have decided against closing their institutions for an indefinite period after the prime minister assured them that the government would examine their grievances,...
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Scandinavian cousins pool resources
A Danish and a Swedish university have joined forces to create the largest centre for research and studies in the natural sciences in northern Europe. Oresunds University will begin operations next...
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Bosnia soothes student fears
Bosnian students who fled the country to avoid the fighting will not be compelled to serve in the armed forces against their will, according to the Bosnian ministry of defence. An official of the...