Sits.vac:Pounds 98,000 (no popes please): * What it costs and what you earn. Low tax rates, excellent benefits and generous salaries all add up to make Hong Kong, at first glance, a very attractive...
Tom Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week A Walk through Weimar: From Heaven through the World to Hell (from Saturday, 2.00 R3). Radio 3's "Weimar Weekend" begins...
Is the idea of a telepathic tabby completely barking? Rupert Sheldrake says his experiments prove that pets have paranormal powers, but Susan Blackmore, right, is one of several academics disputing...
Is the idea of a telepathic tabby completely barking? Rupert Sheldrake says his experiments prove that pets have paranormal powers, but Susan Blackmore, right, is one of several academics disputing...
Last week in the TES: Natalie Fenton argued that academics were right to take industrial action over this year's pay claim: Gerald Vinten Deputy dean and professor of management Southampton Business...
Last week in the TES: Reg Jordan argued that medical students should study unorthodox medicine: Christopher C. French, Head of department, Department of psychology Goldsmiths College, London To...
The ߣߣÊÓƵn Broadcasting Authority is advertising for staff to help it implement a controversial new federal censorship law. The authority has been given the job of filtering out pornographic...
Ministers' planned revolution in sixth-form study next year could be ruined by university conservatism and apathy, college and school leaders have warned. Funding shortfalls could also undermine the...
More than 14,000 hopeful students applied for 4,200 places at Sofia University in the Bulgarian capital. At the University of National and World Economy about 19,000 applicants were chasing 3,300...
Bus ride to millions. The University of Abertay Dundee has launched a gloomy student recruitment campaign with the slogan "One of Abertay's graduates now works on the buses". Not quite so gloomy when...
Harvard University has admitted that it misclassified many employees as temporary instead of full-time, cheating them of benefits and salary raises. The university said it will put things right,...
A botched database set up by the Student Loans Company will leave thousands of students strapped for cash as they start their higher education courses. The database supplied to local authorities by...
Nearly nine out of ten A-level exams sat this year were passed,but this week's results suggest that so-called "grade inflation" is beginning to level out, writes Alan Thomson. The numbers of A levels...
* Recent graduate unemployment fell one percentage point to 5 per cent last year, according to the First Destinations of Students Leaving Higher Education Institutions 1997-98, published this week....
* The worst possible inspection grade for quality assurance has been given to Cordwainers College, East London. Inspectors from the Further Education Funding Council found "many weaknesses" in the...