Recession compels Japanese to drop out
Japan's worst recession for 50 years has been blamed for the rising number of students withdrawing from university courses. Financial hardships are reckoned to have forced 3,000 students to quit...
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Private partners expand British in_uence in regional Russia
The influence of British education and training will expand in regional Russia through a unique cultural franchising scheme. The British Council, which runs eight regional offices in addition to its...
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Suu Kyi awarded honorary degree
Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi received yet another honour when the University of Melbourne awarded her an honorary doctor of laws in absentia. Suu Kyi's husband, Oxford scholar...
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Database explodes race 'myth'
Two former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities claim in a new book to have exploded the "myths" that have fuelled a United States backlash against preferences for racial minority...
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You earn as they learn
Learning technology experts gather in Oxford next week and they will not be talking about lecture videos. This year's thing, says Jonathan Darby, is learning environments. Oleg Liber foresees (below...
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Sun shines for Kent course
Computing graduates from the University of Kent will be able to enter the job market with an industry-recognised Java technology certificate, under an agreement between the university and Sun...
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Sarah's wonder vision
Last month Sarah Morley, a 26-year old psychology research student at the University of Hertfordshire, jetted to New York. In an Oscars-style ceremony, Stevie Wonder handed her a $150,000 cheque,...
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Caught in the crossfire of conflicting cultures
Education's new management style must not impair sound pedagogical judgements, says Conrad Russell People working in public service jobs today are at the sharp end of a violent clash between two...
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Power of purse used to drive skill bandwagon
This week sees the first of The THES's new fortnightly Teaching sections (pages 31-34). Its publication coincides with the Skills Task Force's report Towards a National Skills Agenda and Education...
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Face it, we need more scientists
When I read the trailer for Simon Jenkins's article ("Face it, the last thing we need is more scientists", THES, September 11), I was tempted to write with a pre-rebuttal, so sure was I of the...
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Face it, we need more scientists
Simon Jenkins is right: science does matter. He ranges over many issues in last week's article but he is wrong on several important points. For a start, government is not "the only paymaster in town...
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Pension makes sense
Readers of your piece on pensions in higher and further education ("Avoiding future shock", THES, September 11) may be wondering why the cost of the Universities Superannuation Scheme is greater to...
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The truth is out there
In his review of Belief in God in an Age of Science (Books, THES, August 28) Anthony Freeman takes author John Polkinghorne to task for his critical realism. Freeman believes that "whether (subatomic...
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Peculiar business
As the author of the 1996 Higher Education Quality Council report into student complaints procedures, I am confident that the overwhelming majority of institutions now have procedures for resolving...
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Peculiar business
The Quality Assurance Agency does not have and does not seek a role in adjudicating on individual student complaints ("Student gripes head for QAA", THES, August 21). It is for institutions to put in...