The Royal Phnom Penh University, which lies on the chaotic road to the Cambodian capital's Pochentong airport, has a brief but tragic past. Opened in 1960, it was shut in 1975 - the Khmer Rouge's "...
(Photograph) - Flying the flag: an Albanian student taking part in a demonstration in Bucharest, Romania, last week. The 150 Albanian students protested against the Serbian crackdown and expulsion of...
Plans to create a national consultative body of students to discuss radical reforms of the Italian university system have collapsed. The structural reform of degree courses will now take place before...
Nottingham Trent University's new MA in online journalism will equip students not only with core reporting skills but also with the multimedia knowledge required for jobs in computer-mediated news...
Prosper Recruitment, an agency owned by Welsh universities and colleges, has set up a graduate recruitment website. Candidates can browse vacancies or register their details and be alerted to...
A Pounds 1 million IT centre of excellence has been launched at Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education, Birmingham, with the aim of raising computer skills levels in the region's...
HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Edited by Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal and William J. Mitchell. MIT Press, 240pp, Pounds...
(Photograph) - Central station: Bob Clay, organiser of the CADE 99 (Computers in Art and Design Education) conference at the University of Teesside is pictured in the Hemispherium, a key attraction...
Higher education institutions should remain free to engage in overseas activities, argues Geoffrey Alderman Does National Audit Office criticism of Southampton Institute for having squandered Pounds...
Universities are beginning to realise the value of the intellectual property generated by their staff. Two developments indicate the change. First, they are no longer as willing to let staff keep...
One thing on which everyone in higher education agrees is that form filling is out of hand. Research grant applications, quality assessments, bids for a share of this or that pot of gold are taking...
Your article "Culture of subterfuge" (THES, February 26) makes a number of serious allegations about research and other work at the North Staffordshire Hospital. The use of words such as "scandal"...
One can think of many explanations for why Neanderthals disappeared. Chris Stringer's ("A squalid habitat on the path to extinction", THES, March 26) is very peculiar. The Gibraltar cave he is...
The report "Teach-only contract threat" (THES, April 2) is misleading in suggesting that new contracts are being considered to try to influence the research assessment exercise. This issue is largely...
In response to the article "Entry by postcode could fall foul of law" (THES, March 26), the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service would like to draw attention to the following points. Neither...