KEY QUESTIONS about short-term cash shortages and university freedom are still awaiting answers post-Dearing, say higher education policy developers. A detailed analysis of Sir Ron Dearing's report...
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The most popular of all degree subjects, business studies, has seen explosive...
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The TV programmes This Life, Kavanagh QC and the usual fare of cops and robbers...
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects PORTUGUESE would appear to be one of the least popular subjects taught at British...
A TOP Egyptian scholar has appealed to academics around the world for help to fight what human rights groups claim is a death sentence on him and his wife. Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid made his plea on the...
BLACK institutions in South Africa are being urged to become "development universities", geared to meeting the needs of disadvantaged communities, rather than emulating their globalising white...
EXPOUNDING articulately on how students should organise themselves, using her hands to emphasis points to her audience, 21-year-old Rikky Minyuku looks nothing like the popular image of a South...
"No English, please, we are Bengalis." That is the new dictum at Calcutta's Rabindra Bharati University, named after India's national poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, writes Hasan Suroor...
Scientists in China have been promised better conditions for research under a government plan to upgrade science facilities. The State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC) says the plan, which...
A leading Indian historian who was condemned by Muslim fanatics for opposing the ban on Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses has resigned as pro vice chancellor of Delhi's Jamia Millia...
The first westerners to visitAlbania soon after the fall of communism were pleasantly surprised: virtually everybody spoke some foreign language and even pupils in primary schools could recite some...
Asbestos watchdogs at Jussieu university campus in Paris have protested against the involvement of the education minister in the biggest decontamination programme in Europe. The university's anti-...
Italian archaeologists fear that an American nuclear research submarine may be exploring sunken wrecks in Italy's territorial waters. Their claims followed the sighting of a mysterious conning tower...
The disastrous flooding in the Oder Basin in Poland and Germany was not the fault of the Czechs, who opened their reservoirs, or of a wrathful God, but the responsibility of Polish scientists,...
An Italian court has reversed a ruling that awarded 14 foreign language lecturers at Siena University salaries at associate professor level and backdated pay worth Pounds 3 million, writes Paul...