Musicologists take note of melodies of diaspora
When people move they take their music with them - a phenomenon that will be examined by musicologists in Sicily this spring. A seminar on "the music of diasporas" will be the first major event...
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Red faces after find at green centre
A Spanish research centre specialising in renewable energy and environmental protection is engaged in a clean-up operation after nuclear waste was found in its own backyard. The Centre for Energy,...
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Women lead race to take Harvard top job
As the smoke begins to clear after the departure of Harvard president Lawrence Summers, at least four women have emerged as potential successors. If one were appointed, she would be the first female...
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Student expelled over calendar
A Belarusian university student has been expelled for possessing 5,000 pocket calendars bearing a photograph of academic Alaksandar Milinkevich, the main opposition candidate in this month's...
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Ramallah
Tuition fees for more than 19,000 Palestinian students will be cut by 75 per cent this semester under a Unesco project funded by the Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People. The...
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Luxembourg
A Thai research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped it out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology of...
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Cotonou
Academics at Benin's national university are on strike in protest at the Government's refusal to let them to take part in the selection of the vice-chancellor.
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Sydney
Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University is seeking to break into the ߣߣÊÓƵn MBA market with an application to the New South Wales Government for registration and accreditation of several programmes to...
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Call for teacher training specialist institutions
ߣߣÊÓƵ's deans of education have called on the federal Government to establish special universities to focus on training schoolteachers. In recent years, two thirds of faculties of education have...
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Job plan knocked
Student protests continue in France against a proposed youth employment plan that unions claim will erode employment rights for young people, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. The contrat première...
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Syria gets boost as US is shunned
The number of Syrians studying in the US has declined by a third over the past five years, with universities in Syria benefiting directly as they enter a period of dramatic reform. Syria's...
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Don't be cowed over vital work that saves lives
Those who back animal research have a moral duty to speak up, says 16-year-old Pro-Test organiser Laurie Pycroft Animal research has been seen as a guilty secret for a while now. There is a steady...
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The place where every second is counted
The time galleries Royal Observatory, Greenwich Just before stepping inside the Royal Observatory, perched on Greenwich Park Hill, I stop to take one more look at the wonderful view. A stretch of...
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Friends in Higher places...
Government departments have found that computerising things leads only to trouble. Last week, The Times Higher learnt this lesson the hard way as glamorous guests flooded to the party to launch the...
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...revive the senses...
Huddled in a corner of the gallery we found Dennis Hayes, the president-designate of Natfhe, talking to Simon Davies from the London School of Economics. Mr Davies spoke out recently in The Times...