MONTREAL As Canadian tuition fees continue to soar, a provincial government that hopes to be re-elected next Thursday is offering a free year of university to high-school graduates. Saskatchewan's...
When discovered in humans, the TT-virus caused a scare. Now that it is seen as harmless, the medical community's interest has waned. But this could be a mistake, Steve Farrar hears It is the disease...
PARIS Lax administration, falsified payments and excessive granting of sick leave are among charges made in a damning report on France's principal education research institute. Philippe Meirieu,...
BOSTON Twenty-six top universities in the United States and Canada have united to promote their distance-learning courses in a single giant online catalogue for students in an effort to stave off big...
MELBOURNE An Australian university keen to bring more women into engineering has won a rare concession from equal opportunity bosses - the right to advertise and offer posts just for women. RMIT...
New Mexico's supreme court is considering whether the author of a critical biography of Jack Kerouac can continue to act as literary executor to the Beat writer's daughter, Jan Kerouac. The case is...
About 2,000 years ago Plutarch observed that the student's mind was a fire to be lit, not a vessel to be filled (Teaching, "The fallacy of facts", THES, September 3). Dave Radlett Firelighter in law...
Larry Bunt says a national pay structure is a backwards step After an elephantine gestation, the report of the Bett committee into terms and conditions of employment in higher education was published...
Last week in The THES... James Tooley argued that British universities were churning out too many graduates and should have their state subsidies withdrawn If James Tooley believes jobs filled by...
British Aids victims who choose to end their lives are more likely to seek the assistance of a friend or family member than their American or continental counterparts. Cases of euthanasia and...
A PhD student who has been carrying out ground-breaking research into assisted suicides and euthanasia among Britons with Aids is in dispute with Exeter University over guaranteeing the anonymity of...
This week, THESIS, The THES internet service, launches the online version of Higher Channels, our TVand radio listings service (in The THES this week on page 24). The online version lists more...
* Universities with a high proportion of part-time students could suffer under plans to drop part-timers from one of the performance indicators, vice-chancellors have warned. The funding councils...
GEC is developing a masters degree for all its new graduate employees in collaboration with universities worldwide. The University of Warwick will accredit modules developed by other universities,...
Margaret Ewing, SNP MSP for Moray, is championing the cause of 17 art students who have been "devastated" to discover they cannot continue their course to degree level at Moray College. They had...