Roaming the Web for work
Should I laugh or cry? Reading the article on Professor Cheng's demotion due to allegations of plagiarism at City University, Hong Kong, (THES, 9 June), I began to wonder whether there was something...
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Skills training for PhD supervisors
Postgraduate students are quite rightly expressing their concerns about the provision made for them. As only a quarter of doctoral students achieve their PhD within five years of registration, there...
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Labour eyes miss action
Panic-stricken manoeuvres within the Conservative Party to escape blame, bribe voters or try a new leader, reveal more clearly than anything else could that Labour is riding for victory. What would a...
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Key issues for Nolan
Guidance on proper behaviour seems to be spilling out of every official organisation in further and higher education. The Higher Education Funding Council has published its rules for council members...
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Scotland's MANs of the moment
Every year Scottish university principals and senior lay and academic representatives have held a residential meeting at The Burn, a country house sited in spectacular scenery beside a salmon river....
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McGill cure for medical ethics
In just eight years the McGill University centre for medicine, ethics and law has built a reputation as a leading national and international institution. Director Margaret Somerville says the impetus...
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Student entry goes on-line
Universities are turning to computers to make the application process less time-wasting and less expensive in the United States. Students like applying "on-line" because it makes their applications...
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Barcelona now turns to Socrates
Two universities in north-east Spain reflect on the successor to Erasmus. Rebecca Warden reports from Catalonia. Socrates, the successor to Erasmus, is to be launched formally in Paris on Monday....
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Sex splits science jobs
Massive redundancies in higher education and research in east Germany since unification have particularly hit women's jobs in natural sciences and engineering. Marion Bimmler, chairwoman of the staff...
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Jailed rector released in Macedonia
Fadilj Sulejmani, rector of the illegal Albanian-language University of Tevoto, has been released from prison in Macedonia after payment of bail of more than Pounds 45,454. He had been in custody for...
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Women in graduate studies rule roost
Women now outnumber men among Australian postgraduate students and are rapidly approaching numerical equality on higher degree courses obtained through research and coursework. Figures from the...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the high point of what has been called "the poetical history of man-kind": "Wherever Krishna, the lord of yoga, and Partha, the bowman, are, I believe that there too...
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Speaking Volumes: Essays on the 'Welfare State'
Hilary Rose on Richard Titmuss's Essays on the 'Welfare State' . I suspect, like a number of women of my generation and class background, having a "career", let alone becoming an academic, was more...
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