IN DEEPEST Berkshire, a small college of Seventh Day Adventists is preparing for the second coming of Christ. Newbold College, set in 80 acres near the village of Binfield and catering for some 350...
NEARLY 200,000 students, over half of them undergraduates, benefit from partnership arrangements between universities and other institutions. Many of these students are in further education, but a...
A fierce row over asbestos risk assessment and academic responsibility has broken out between Paris's Jussieu University campus anti-asbestos committee and members of the Academy of Medicine and the...
UNIVERSITY rectors and government officials have unexpectedly failed to agree on a blueprint for changes in Spain's complex university entrance system. A meeting of the university council in...
Footballing philosophy is breathing new life into the ailing world of student politics in Germany, where Marx and Lenin once topped the league. The St Pauli Party is standing in student elections at...
A TOURIST checkpoint for entry to Venice is among suggestions from the city's Ca' Foscari University for use during the 2000 Jubilee and Holy Year celebrations. Left-wing mayor Massimo Cacciari, who...
A blueprint will be formulated soon on increasing student intake to Malaysia's institutions of higher learning, and determining which programmes are to receive priority for supporting national...
The Commonwealth of Learning has endured a hand-to-mouth existence since it was established by Commonwealth leaders nine years ago to use distance learning techniques to create and widen access to...
India's only communist stronghold among universities - the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi - has fallen to the right-wing and pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party in the elections to its...
South African universities and technikons are braced for a serious funding squeeze, which they say could force staff redundancies and spark widespread student unrest next year. The cabinet should...
EXPRESSIONS of alarm over the static numbers of foreigners choosing to study in the United States have fallen on deaf government ears. There appears to be little appetite for challenging the...
A light breeze teases the college flags and scatters an early morning mist, exposing rowers practicing their strokes offshore. A vision of Oxford in Kentucky? That is the objective of one public...
ONCE UPON a time numbers mattered more for what they symbolised than for what they counted. Even in our hard-headed age, their symbolic power is latent. Take a couple of fractions, like 1/260th and 1...
A recent report from the Construction Industry Board has recommended the setting-up of a common foundation course for building industry students, in response to damning criticism of the United...
IN ACCUSING me of not being able to rhyme, (THES, November 15) Peter Knight clearly does not know his rhyme from his rhythm. My entry certainly rhymed, but as "verse in the 20th century has largely...