When are student fees not student fees? When they are just "administrative contributions", according to Thomas Oppermann, education minister of the state of Lower Saxony, in northern Germany. That is...
Sheffield University's plan to close its earth sciences department has provoked a storm of protest from students and parents. Despite assurances that students will continue to receive high-quality...
Universities and higher education colleges in the East Midlands have formed an association to represent them on regional issues. This follows disagreement among vice-chancellors over who should...
The white paper on the regulation of long-term care was welcomed this week by the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. A structure of national organisations for the personal...
Despite the internet,scientists in poor countries and even in relativelyprosperous India are still excluded from thescientific community. Subbiah Arunuchalam,in the latest edition of the online...
Murray Weston focuses on the epic production of a project that tests the potential for digital delivery of a high-quality film archive Moving pictures have this year taken their place among the...
By the time you read this the city will probably have grown far beyond the few roads and houses that appeared on Monday afternoon. By the end of the month, when building ceases, the place could be an...
Nancy Rothwell will be the 169th presenter of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this month. Anthony King, 64, professor in the department of government at Essex University, has been invited to...
Roman Herzog may be Germany's president but this has not stopped him being rude about Germans, or at least about their education system. The former law professor has called for a thorough reform of...
Tuesday Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Wonderful, monastic spot in a house in woods like Virginia Water. The Dutch government pays for it in the name of the international life of the mind...
Wizard wheeze No more will further education be the "Cinderella sector", delegates at the Association of College's annual conference in Harrogate insisted last week. Led by Lewisham College principal...
The possibility that Ireland may rejoin the Commonwealth after 50 years will increase when secretary-general, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, visits Dublin next week.Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last month signalled...
Sheldon Rothblatt argues that universities need boundaries to retain their legitimacy, privileges and trust Advocates of academic reorganisation are never hesitant to proclaim the requirements for...
The statement that "Troubled TVU's teaching could be farmed out" is purely speculative (THES, November ). There are no plans for "significant chunks of teaching to be hived off to neighbouring...
Last week in The THESI Anthony Elliott wrote about the influence of Freud. We asked whether Freud was finished. Stevan Harnad Professor of cognitive science at Southampton University Freud may not be...