50%? Done that, says top Scot
Prime minister Tony Blair wants 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds in higher education by 2010. Yesterday, Iain Gray, Scotland's minister for enterprise, transport and lifelong learning, revealed that...
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Letter: Just intervention
Tzvetan Todorov ("A case of right over might", THES February 9) makes an interesting contribution to the debate on humanitarian intervention but some points should be made in response. Todorov's...
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From today's UK Papers
Students sue Oxfordshire college for £100K damages A group of students has been cleared to sue Rycotewood College for damages after a judge ruled they had been denied the practical experience needed...
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Neanderthal still walks among us
Mapping Human History
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Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
Paris, 02 Mar 2004 On the last night of February 2002 ESA's Envisat - the largest and most sophisticated Earth Observation spacecraft ever built - swapped the tropical atmosphere of French Guiana for...
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Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
Paris, 02 Mar 2004 On the last night of February 2002 ESA's Envisat - the largest and most sophisticated Earth Observation spacecraft ever built - swapped the tropical atmosphere of French Guiana for...
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Romano Prodi: Erasmus World Press Conference, Brussels, 17 July 2002
Brussels, 17 July 2002 Today the Commission adopted Erasmus World on a proposal from Viviane. There is a simple philosophy behind the project: "By opening our universities to the world, we open them...
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Fat fingers, juicy pies and Uncle Sam's sorely embarrassing not-so little problem
The Future of Freedom
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Today's news
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain’s brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years’ “national service” teaching in London’s roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
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Iron fists in velvet gloves
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
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Educated guess about social gain
Education and Development
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...
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Falling fortunes of the lands of the rising sun
The Great Divergence
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Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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Germans skip UK for ߣߣƵ
British universities are losing foreign students to their ߣߣƵn counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....