Why I...... believe that Jay Gatsby was black
Carlyle V. Thompson Assistant professor of American and African literature Medgar Evers College,United States Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's opulent playboy hero, was a black man. Fitzgerald...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Bill Stephenson asked whether A-level results are the fairest method of selecting students Daniel Thomson PPE student St Edmunds Hall Oxford University There has been much press...
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Glittering prizes
Lewis Wolpert, professor of developmental biology at University College London, has won the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of public understanding of science. He will...
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Eyewitness
Portugal's cork industry is so vital to the country's economy that it is illegal for a landowner to cut down a cork oak tree. "Bark police" patrol forests to prevent land clearance and to stop the...
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Paris
The Paris Institute of Political Studies is to introduce longer courses with a greater international dimension. Diplomas will be based on five years' post-baccalaureat studies, the equivalent of a...
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Florence
An architecture student at Florence University is preparing his degree thesis on the theory and practice of building sandcastles. Leonardo Ugolini is well known in the esoteric international...
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Legal bar threatens Pretoria's designs
The South African government's attempt to control overseas universities' operations on its soil has run into legal problems. Eben Boshoff, director of legal services in the education department, told...
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Ritzy Rome revealed
The British School at Rome, directed by archaeologist Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, is running the most ambitious archaeological project ever undertaken in the countryside around Rome. It involves scholars...
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Campus aims to heal Polish-Ukrainian rift
The first step towards the creation of a Polish-Ukrainian university in Lublin, southeast Poland, has been taken, with the formal foundation of the Polish-Ukrainian European College. The Act of...
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Rich buy places on top courses
Growing numbers of ߣߣÊÓƵn universities are virtually guaranteeing a place to students who lack the necessary entry grades but who can pay the full tuition fee. Although only a dozen universities...
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Union puts a brake on online fever
An American teachers' union has fired a warning shot across the bow of the fast-growing web-based higher education market, declaring that undergraduate degrees must have some face-to-face contact and...
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Cutting edge
(Photograph) - Cutting edge: a Southampton University engineering student shows off her entry to the BBC's Robot Wars programme as part of a university day to inspire innovation and invention. The...
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University IT skills are not matching the equipment
UK universities need to develop strategies for urgent reskilling of staff, according to the final report from the Joint Information Systems Committee-funded Staff Computer&IT Skills project (...
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Alarm over FBI 'big brother' spy program
Reports that the FBI has a program that can intercept private email messages is raising alarm among some of the biggest internet service providers in America - universities and colleges. Already...
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A solution or California dreaming?
British ministers, keen to learn from the United States, might like to study the decision of the state of California to extend its Cal Grant programme from next year (back page). The new scheme has...