Universities could be prevented from withholding degree results from students who have defaulted on their tuition fees by the Human Rights Act 1998, writes Alison Goddard Institutions could incur "...
The law faculty at Charles University has filed a criminal complaint after the discovery that papers for last month's exams were on offer before the test for Kr100,000 (Pounds 1,800) complete with...
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In what has been described as a battle between the Big Bang and Big Bucks, astronomers at an international conference have taken on the rest of the world to push for the preservation of the sky....
Jean Golding oversees a project to chart the lives of a county's youngsters. Geoff Watts reports In the past month, infant school teachers in the Avon area of southwest England have been receiving...
Although R&D is vital to the bottom line, many British companies seem still not to have got the message. Martin Ince reports Are British companies finally getting enthusiastic about spending...
Enter the world of the supramolecular chemist, the scientist whose task it is to decipher nature's most complex codes The public perception of chemists is the crazy bespectacled professors of 1950s...
High-tech cheating will spread across higher education unless the problem is tackled urgently, computer experts warned this week. Last week's crisis at Edinburgh University - where grades for 90...
Edinburgh University officials said this week that the departmental investigation into plagiarism claims was likely to take "weeks rather than days", because examiners wanted to contact all the...
Unions want all to share pay rises. The Educational Institute of Scotland has welcomed the Bett proposals as ending a negotiating anomaly for Scotland's new universities, which operate outside the...
Heriot-Watt University materials chemist Christopher Viney this week had the tall order of getting a giraffe to dribble into a glass jar. He is investigating natural lubricants in a research project...
The Malaysian education ministry says local universities must ensure Muslim and non-Muslim students share hostel rooms to promote racial harmony and integration. The education minister said the...
The simple answer is that I was not invited. Egyptians are unhappy that the Rosetta Stone - discovered in Egypt 200 years ago - is still in England, in the British Museum. The stone is a unique thing...
Two weeks ago in The THES... I have just analysed a survey of teachers' views on PRP in schools for a major teachers' union. About 30,000 teachers and headteachers from England and Wales responded....