Righteous paths
Dearing appears to be taking England down quite a different road from that being mapped out in Scotland, observe Michael Young and Ken Spours. The proposals of the Dearing review of qualifications...
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Flick and press squeezes
Two issues discussed in The THES (March 15) come together, fortuitously but far from surprisingly, to raise difficult ethical questions: in one case the refusal of Cambridge University Press to...
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Marked up
We have heard that scores of around 20 out of 24 are becoming the average score gained in the current round of Teaching Quality Assessment visits. This raises two questions: Are the assessors using...
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Counting the smart money
There is clearly a strong link between levels of resources available and levels of quality achieved in education, argues Clive Booth. What do the BSE scandal and higher education policy have in...
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Fillet of Whitehall
For years the Government has been ignoring expert advice. This week it has been hiding behind scientists. In the late 1980s, when BSE was first diagnosed in cattle, ministers acted too slowly and did...
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MAFF hears what it wants to hear
By 1988, the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food was aware of a serious crisis. Cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease were confirmed from diverse locations in Britain...
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Top black at Wits resigns
The four-month "battle of Wits" is over following the resignation of William Malegapuru Makgoba, deputy vice chancellor. The University of Wi****ersrand's most senior black academic has accepted a...
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Asians swell university ranks
For more than five years Australia has encouraged universities to enroll more students from non-English-speaking homes. Institutions have devoted large sums to creating special programmes and the...
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Non-turnips have last laugh
Undergraduate publications are rarely sued for libel but editors of student magazines in Irish universities are likely to be much more careful in future. Their caution is understandable given an...
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'Ants' turn on their masters
At least three quarters of the laboratory directors at two of France's main public research organisations have launched an unprecedented campaign of protest against budget cuts and lack of job...
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Austerity strikes close campuses
Public sector cuts in Austria have led to a wave of strikes and demonstrations in higher education with calls for the resignation of minister Rudolph Scholten. Up to 40,000 students and assistant...
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Albanian axe hangs over a degree of error
Albanians whose degrees include dissertations on "socialist" subjects under Communist rule may have them cancelled under a review by the State Academic Qualifications Commission. Subjects at risk are...
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Boot goes in to car boot sales
A million people enjoy haggling and finding curious, useful and sometimes valuable items at car boot sales every weekend. But if local authority officials have their way, such sales could be severely...
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Welsh heads breathe fire
Welsh higher education college heads are demanding an explanation for funding cuts of up to 5 per cent in real terms. They want to know why most former public sector institutions fared worse in...
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Institutions risk bankruptcy
Some Scottish higher education institutions will be bankrupt by the end of the century unless funding cuts are reversed, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. This follows...