Vice chancellors' pay
The publication of the league table listing vice chancellors' salaries (THES, March 24) is a reflection of the public expectation of openness about pay for the most senior people in both the public...
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Hong Kong heaven for academics
Huw Richards's report on The THES-sponsored conference about the future of Hong Kong (THES, March 24) provided little about the kind of future awaiting those planning to remain here post-1997,...
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Quarts into pint pots
Do not put today's Synthesis: Buildings and Estate Management in the bin unread. These are your working conditions it is talking about. This is also what "managerialism" in universities is about,...
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Of motes and beams
Why do women get fewer first class honours degrees than men - and fewer thirds? Gerard McCrum raises at least the first half of this hardy perennial on page 19 in relation to Oxbridge but it is a...
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'A system which eliminates people'
"I think the ideas are good, but it is going very fast. In the long term maybe it will work, but right now it doesn't," says Teresa Le"n, a history student at the University Rovira y Virgili in...
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Spain's rollercoaster of reform
Spain, a country which has seen more rapid change than most over the last two decades, has been engaged in a far-reaching reform of its higher education system since 1983. In the early 1980s, Spain's...
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`I think we went too fast'
"I think we went too fast," says Jordi Berrio, vice rector of academic affairs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. This modern campus university of 34,000 students was one of the first to...
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Student loans fraud inquiry
The Serious Fraud Office has been called in by New Zealand's education ministry to investigate the theft of up to NZ$750,000 (Pounds 306,000) in student loans. The referral came after preliminary...
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Court imposes black policy
Mississippi has been ordered to spend $35 million on its historically black universities by a federal judge who has said the state may not close one of its three black colleges as planned, writes...
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Try to see it my way
Elona Kibler believes that the new animosity between blacks and Jews can be attributed partly to the way in which American Jewry has changed. Where once Jews were seen as an oppressed minority - like...
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Russians count brains drained
Russia's counter-intelligence service is monitoring the extent of the academic brain drain just as the Academy of Sciences is pleading with government to recognise its financial crisis. The lack of...
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Tuition fees for Hungarians
Hungarian students have staged simultaneous nationwide street protests at government plans to introduce tuition fees of 2,000 forints (Pounds 11) a month from September this year. About 140,000 full-...
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Sciences make their mark
Industry in the former East Germany is struggling, unemployment has rocketed and the social fabric is stretched to breaking point - but Bonn can claim that the costly and painful measures imposed on...
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Patent for torch that sees cancer
A "torch" that can be shone at body organs to see whether they have cancerous growths has just been patented, the Institute of Physics heard this week. The technique, known as optical biopsy, means...
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Tranquil tea from the tropics
Strathclyde University scientists are helping to discover whether herbal teas used as sedatives in Latin America could lead to a new type of tranquilliser. The Strathclyde Institute for Drug Research...