Police raid on Albanian office
The new university of Tetovo, which will provide Albanian-taught higher education for Macedonia's Albanian ethnic minority, is continuing to prove an embarrassment to the Macedonian government. The...
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Eastern economist looks west
Albanian communism was the most repressive and the most isolated of the various systems in force in central and eastern Europe. Albania initially had links with the Soviet Union, and subsequently...
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Warwick joins fellowship elite
Oxbridge students have long spoken about the college-based postdoctoral step of the academic ladder in exclusive, knowing terms. It is not a junior research fellowship but a "JRF". Soon, however,...
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Quality models Bucks trend
Last month Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, called on the Higher Education Funding Council to come up with proposals for external quality assurance. Producing them will take time...
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Bored again
One hundred and first, and last, in our series of literary sideswipes comes from that noted dispenser of joie de vivre and bonhomie, Friedrich Nietzsche, who demonstrated in Twilight of the Gods (...
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Winning wine
Be honest. How many of you even knew that Canada produces wine? There will certainly be no excuse for students at Edinburgh's Centre for Canadian Studies and the city's Queen Margaret College who...
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Scared but rich
Coming soon to Regent's College, an international conference on paranoia and persecution with speakers including Norman Stone. Registration is Pounds 150 -- or Pounds 300 if you want a ticket for the...
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Slippery soap
The Association for Colleges recently came up with the idea of using soap operas to sell the idea of lifetime education. Antithesis is looking for prime time titles: Dundee University has already...
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Original kin
Tempers have finally flared in Gower Street, London, over arrivistes Imperial College, East London, Greenwich, et al. A letter from UCL's mailing machine this week bears the slogan "University...
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NVQs guided back on course
The council charged with introducing national vocational qualifications has introduced heavily revised guidelines as a response to Government calls "to get NVQs right". John Hillier, chief executive...
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Drop-out rates on rise
The first hard evidence of growing drop-out rates is emerging from Higher Education Funding Council for England statistics. HEFCE statisticians are working on institutional returns as the council...
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Row over College of Law tie
The Law Society is taking a fresh look at its links with the College of Law in London after an academic threatened to complain about their "special relationship" to the Office of Fair Trading. Law...
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Light relief
A new question, posed by Andrea Nolan of Glasgow University's veterinary medicine faculty: how many academics does it take to decide who will change a light bulb? Dr Nolan reports in the staff...
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Juggle muddle
What does the title "Juggling for a degree" bring to mind? Why, a degree in juggling, of course. After publishing a book so named last year, Lancaster University's innovation in higher education unit...
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Three-sided view
"Reading in Triangles" is the title of an inaugural lecture next week at the university of the same name next week. But before readers ask how many are eternal, they should know that Naomi Segal,...