New Guinea students catch up
Students at the University of Papua New Guinea have returned to special classes designed to help them catch up with work missed when student boycotts and violence forced the university to abandon the...
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Clerics still pose barrier to reform
The pro-reform parties that now form a majority in Iran's parliament after last week's elections will still face substantial opposition to reform from the conservative clerics who run Iran. It seems...
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Cyprus move widens access
Higher education in the Republic of Cyprus has undergone a long-awaited change with the government accreditation of 118 courses at private tertiary colleges. But the move has been met with mixed...
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New college helps plug gap in Maltese market
A new College of Applied Arts, Sciences and Technology is to bridge the gap between Maltese initial vocational education and the University of Valetta. Since 1980, when a Maltese polytechnic merged...
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Greece in harmony with EU
Greece is to relax its tight controls on the operation of private and overseas universities to try to escape heavy fines for contravening European Union law. Its legislation governing private...
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Hard shell
(Photograph) - University of the West of England engineers Christopher Melhulish, Ian Horsfield and Alan Winfield with replicas of the first autonomous, mobile robots in the world, on display in the...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Justine Stephens argued that students were right to occupy the DFEE over tuition fees Paul Mackney General secretary Natfhe Goldsmiths College Students Union is to be...
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Gag on lab talk among friends
The THES reports from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Washington. An era of greater secrecy among bioscientists is beginning as more turn to corporate cash...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. DIGESTIVE DISORDERS FOUNDATION www.digestivedisorders.org.uk...
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Engineering degree that is all in a day's work
Glasgow Caledonian University's workplace degrees have won praise from secretary of state for education David Blunkett as a model for the future. The university's department of engineering has...
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Art and design review
Robert Newton, senior lecturer in the school of information and media at Robert Gordon University, is being funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to review worldwide websites used for...
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Sheffield sharp
The graduate school of computing and management services at Sheffield Hallam University has added a new partner to the career Msc programme. Last week an Msc in business intelligence was launched,...
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Irish Opac
A fully translated version of an Irish-language online public access catalogue (Opac) is providing full web search facilities in English and Irish for students at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra,...
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Direct approach
Users of the 68 pilot learndirect centres established by the University for Industry will be able to acquire and develop skills in all major Windows applications, with the addition of a tailored...
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More in store
Researchers are developing storage technology that may lead to miniature devices with 100 times the density of present hard drives. The Millipede system uses an array of minute sensor arms to read...