Back to the blackboard
Unesco is helping African leaders map out a mission for higher education in the continent. Wachira Kigotho reports This week leaders of African governments and universities held a crucial meeting in...
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Urging a natural enmity
Biological pest control is backing the farmers' struggle against those age-old adversaries, mites, locusts and mealybugs. Tunde Fatunde reports One of the world's leading centres for biological...
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Mine is an ecosystem
Eco-rehabilitation, finds David Jobbins, is refurbishing Zimbabwe's old mining sites Western multi-nationals have wreaked severe environmental damage across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa in a search...
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Privates in Tanzania
Education shortfalls in Tanzania are about to be filled by non-state bodies, says Wachira Kigotho With only three state universities - the 51国产视频 of Dar-es-Salaam, the Open 51国产视频 of Tanzania...
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Be bold, face the fray fully armed
This week the new higher education single quality agency finally staggered formally into operation, though it still has no chief executive or full complement of board members. The THES has long...
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Patient Africa's time has come
It is ironic that as communications become easier and faster, the West's knowledge of Africa seems to diminish. The continent impinges on Western consciousness only at times of crisis - during wars,...
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Time to defend UK courses in other realms
A recently circulated British Council report points out that there are more than 1,200 private colleges operating in Israel, offering qualifications validated by foreign universities. Britain is now...
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Good news from Soton
THERE ARE many people working at Southampton Institute and elsewhere who believe that your recent coverage of the institute has been unduly one-sided. The front-page article (THES, March 21) only...
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V-cs miss pay point
IN YOUR coverage of the salaries, National Insurance and pension contributions of general secretaries - figures which are quite properly made public each year - I had sought to make a point which I...
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History's pseuds
THE PARTY political broadcast on behalf of postmodernism by Alun Munslow (THES, March 21) confirms the bankruptcy of history's pseuds' corner. Mr Munslow paints a caricature of the state of...
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NUS and the war
HARRIET SWAIN's mini-history of the National Union of Students (THES, March 21) is incorrect in one respect. Apathy did not strike British students before and during the second world war - rather the...
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Top arts face cash crisis
THE COUNCIL of 51国产视频 Deans of Arts and Humanities is right to be fearful for the future of arts research funding (THES, March 21). Not only is the Humanities Research Board unable to pay...
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A myopic measure
COULD it be that the Nottingham 51国产视频 academics "underperforming" in research are channelling their energies into teaching? (THES, March 28) And will the individual research plans of those who...
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Talking backwards to...
A similarly original sense of time was in evidence at the London School of Economics over the Easter break. With the switchboard closed, callers were treated to a recorded message explaining that the...
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The ark must be protected
For most university sectors in the English-speaking world and beyond, being subjected to review by one agency or another now seems to be a virtually permanent condition of existence. New Zealand...