UK members of the European Parliament and academics involved in European education and training fear that Leonardo will inevitably be affected by the hiatus created by the resignation of the European...
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice-chancellor of Exeter University, acted as a Pounds 2,000-a-day consultant to the agency at the...
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit * Leonardo's initial tender specifications for a printing order were altered at the last minute so the firm Forma in Quarto...
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit Question marks hang over the Leonardo da Vinci initiative to promote youth vocational training in the European Union - at...
Students like web-based instruction but it has brought their tutors grief, according to a study reported in the Journal of Distance Education. Advantages cited by students include mastery of...
Personalised lessons, safe virtual streets for children, virtual sports to include those with disabilities and 3D scans to detect and repair body "malfunctions" are among visions of life in 2020 from...
Oxford University's Stuart Lee, Paul Groves and Chris Stephens won the teaching and learning section of the UCISA Web Awards, for their website on the war poet Wilfred Owen. The management...
Darrel Ince argues that the brash computer publishing infecting our bookshops reflects a dangerous dumbing-down in computing A visit to Oxford has, until recently, been a pleasant experience: a walk...
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new education minister, has promised to give a new status to the country's 22,000 temporary lecturers but has not revealed the mechanism. Rectors proposed that the academics on...
Friday Research day. Spend morning straddling the chasm between acoustic phonetics and language acquisition listening to two-year-old Geordies discussing the merits or otherwise of the Teletubby...
Jenny Hobbs, director of the University of Durham's international office, will be acting principal of St Mary's College, Durham from April 1. She replaces Joan Kenworthy. Denys Turner, head of the...
Question. Who said: "The past is much more than beefeaters, the Mary Queen of Scots experience and brown signs on the motorway. It is also the achievements of poets, painters, playwrights, musicians...
Last week in The THES Susan Greenfield asked what is wrong with the way we do science in Britain? Bill Thompson PhD student Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. I am a fully qualified architect with an...
John Lawton, director of the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, has been awarded the Zoological Society of London's Frink Medal for British zoologists for 1998, for his contributions...
I'll sit this one out Who will be the next chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals? Strathclyde's Sir John Arbuthnott was originally proposed by Southampton's Howard Newby,...