Vocational success is OU's open secret
In his article on Labour's online university (THES, October 13), Tony Tysome quotes Josh Hillham from the Institute of Public Policy Research as saying that the Open University has "a poor track...
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T.S.Eliot's wasted wit
Roy Harris must try to be less flat-footed about T. S. Eliot (THES, October 13). The lines about St Mary Woolnoth keeping the hours "With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine" offer a wry comment...
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Melting pot comes to boil
The recent assassination attempt on Kiro Gligorov, president of Macedonia, revealed the potential volatility of the small Balkan country, which became independent from Yugoslavia four years ago. It...
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Private colleges put down roots
A third of universities in Russia are now privately run, according to Incorvuz, an organisation campaigning for greater educational plurality in the Confederation of Independent States and the Baltic...
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Students entitled to free prescriptions
Following the article "Poor students rush for advice" (THES, September 22) our advice centre has been flooded with enquiries and calls from students who wished to know why we had not made them aware...
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A classical dilemma
The ideal classicist is surely one who understands "the linguistic minutiae of the text" (THES, September 29), but who can also employ modern literary critical and anthropological theory in his or...
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Dangerous elision of European Liaison
We have read with interest the contribution of Diana Green about "Europe's Quality Wave" (THES, September 13), in which she refers to the quality audit programme of the CRE (Association of European...
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Strength in uni-ty
Why," asks Simon Jenkins on page 17, "are our universities so timid?" In his book, Accountable to None: the Tory Nationalisation of Britain, published this week, he has rehearsed the sorry saga of...
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Statue angers Albanians
The unveiling of a statue to 19th-century Serbian scholar Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic at the University of Pristina in Kosovo has angered ethnic Albanians, who make up more than 90 per cent of the...
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France to find space for 1.6m
French universities, facing chronic space problems, opened their doors last week to an estimated 1,588,000 students, an increase of 46,000 on last year. The particularly good baccalaureat pass rate...
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Life as we may know it after Nolan
The work of the Nolan committee on standards in public life marks a significant shift in the debate on accountability. The first stage of its activity, which identified the main principles of public...
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Italians rethink industry research links
Italian universities are showing signs of backing away from their strategy of developing industrially-orientated undergraduate courses in favour of a general education followed by specialist...
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Marks are challenged
A wrangle over the results of special university entrance exams in Portugal is spilling over into the enrolment season which ends in November. Since publication of the results and initial allocation...
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Assistants protest over lack of security
Lecturers in dispute over working conditions held up protest banners at the University of Barcelona's ceremony to mark the opening of the new academic year. At the neighbouring Pompeu y Fabre...
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Rise and shine with a class brimming with OJ
British viewers may wonder, but it appears the O. J. Simpson trial was not an entirely futile exercise. For Paul Rothstein, of Georgetown University's law school in Washington DC, it has yielded a...