The Albanian-taught University of Tetovo reopens this autumn but its role in the reconciliation process between ethnic Albanians and the Macedonian authorities is still unclear. Founded in 1994, the...
Bonn Bonn University is facing criticism for failing to detail the record of Joseph Goebbels, a former student and Nazi propaganda minister, in an illustrated book that lists details of other...
A move to 'state-of-the-art' Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, aka Big Mac, is far from ideal for Harvey Kaye's department The big day has finally arrived. My colleagues and I move into a brand-new building,...
My goals on embarking on the life of an academic were simplistic and somewhat naive: to conduct exciting, novel, relevant research in oceanography and to communicate my findings to a wider community...
Student loans are encouraging a debt culture among young people, warn Alan Lewis and Adrian Scott Parents are worried about the effect of debt on their children. A recent national survey that we co-...
Race is a political myth, argues Tukufu Zuberi, and it is time we used racial statistics to prove it The idea of a cause-and-effect relationship between race and social status emerged from...
It seems that there is an "epidemic of falsification" in science, from outright fakery of results to the "massaging of data". Fortunately the phenomenon remains rare, involving only occasional bad...
eTutor of the Year 2001 competition judge Pat Leon describes the qualities the judging panel were looking for in this year's entrants Entries for the first eTutor of the Year 2001 competition show...
Sally Brown Director of membership services, Institute for Learning and Teaching The Institute for Learning and Teaching was set up as a result of the 1997 Dearing report with a remit to enhance the...
Teaching students the skills and discipline of study at the outset can save a lot of trouble later on, says Chris Hopkins. University can be a shock. Not only in terms of accommodation and finance,...
Theories of Earth's demise from the BA Festival of Science in Glasgow, September 3-7 Some physicists say all matter is poised to disintegrate. Ben Allanach asks if we should be losing sleep over the...
I grew up in cold-war Scotland, where regular reports of missile and bomb tests imbued our daily lives with a distinct sense of unease. Then, in parallel to the arms race, came the space race....
Theories of Earth's demise from the BA Festival of Science in Glasgow, September 3-7 Global climate change poses many health challenges for the world. Andy Haines says we are far from understanding...
Theories of Earth's demise from the BA Festival of Science in Glasgow, September 3-7 Cosmic blasts of energy could cause mass extinctions and devastate Earth. Lorraine Hanlon reports: Cosmic blasts,...
Universities must make students without A levels their key recruitment target if they are to meet the government's expansion goal, vice-chancellors will be told at their annual residential meeting in...