PhD to be reassessed
A PhD student has won a four-year court battle with Beijing University to obtain his electronics diploma and have his PhD reassessed. This is the first time a student has sued a university, which is...
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Israeli university fees
A public committee with a mandate to decide about a gradual reduction in Israeli university tuition fees is to be established in the next few days with representatives from the ministries of finance...
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European University of Ireland investigation
Ireland's education ministry is investigating an operation calling itself the European University of Ireland that is operating from a Dublin accommodation address without official sanction. The EUI...
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Franz Kafka campaign
A retired Sussex University professor of comparative literature is continuing his 40-year campaign to persuade Prague's city authorities to name a square after Franz Kafka, who was born in the city...
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Polluted Bangkok hosts conference on environment
University leaders, gathering to thrash out ideas on how to overcome the world's environmental challenges, could hardly have chosen a more apt venue to hold the international conference. The...
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V-c quits over lack of funds
Students are no longer the only people who drop out of university due to frustration with the effects of financial cutbacks. Now a Canadian vice-chancellor can be added to the list. Paule Leduc...
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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...