Glasgow has unexpectedly won a further Pounds 1.5 million from three American benefactors. Publicity-shy William Lindsay from Las Vegas, who is not known to have any connection with either Glasgow or...
The leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800 year history. Last month, the Pisa authorities announced that La Torre had not shifted a single millimetre for four months....
Australia's 700,000 university students have been offered their own new IBM computer, fully equipped and with free access to the internet for just A$9.50 (Pounds 3.65) a week. The National Union of...
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD www.ahrb.ac.uk Small...
Universities, by and large, badly serve the poor and minorities. Alison Goddard visits one trying hard to remove barriers and another struggling to attract non-traditional students Britain's...
Monday Fly back from Turkey, nursing scraped knees and ankles from chasing a Loew's silver-studded blue down a cliff. Great holiday. Twelve new species of butterfly, five new birds. Children noisy on...
What courtier can be gambling with his career - and other peoples' - by whispering "top-up fees" into the ear of the prime minister, against the wishes of education ministers? Evan Harris, Liberal...
Crunch time approaches for members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, who have been locked in discussion about the issue perhaps closest to their hearts - their name. Urged to...
The CVCP may want to consult with colleagues in the higher education colleges on image-making. The Standing Conference of Principals feels "Scop" is a suitably peppy title for the new millennium and...
As female students at Glasgow University this week celebrated International Women's Day by changing campus building names to commemorate women rather than men, it emerged that Mother Nature had given...
The American Academy of Pediatrics has signed an agreement with e-book developer Everybook that will give the academy's members and subscribers access to electronic publication of the medical journal...
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TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
The Autonomous University of Barcelona, not the University of Barcelona, topped a table of Spanish universities published by the Gazeta Universitaria (THES, January 28). The University of Barcelona...
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...