Ritzy Rome revealed
The British School at Rome, directed by archaeologist Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, is running the most ambitious archaeological project ever undertaken in the countryside around Rome. It involves scholars...
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Campus aims to heal Polish-Ukrainian rift
The first step towards the creation of a Polish-Ukrainian university in Lublin, southeast Poland, has been taken, with the formal foundation of the Polish-Ukrainian European College. The Act of...
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Rich buy places on top courses
Growing numbers of Australian universities are virtually guaranteeing a place to students who lack the necessary entry grades but who can pay the full tuition fee. Although only a dozen universities...
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Union puts a brake on online fever
An American teachers' union has fired a warning shot across the bow of the fast-growing web-based higher education market, declaring that undergraduate degrees must have some face-to-face contact and...
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Cutting edge
(Photograph) - Cutting edge: a Southampton University engineering student shows off her entry to the BBC's Robot Wars programme as part of a university day to inspire innovation and invention. The...
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University IT skills are not matching the equipment
UK universities need to develop strategies for urgent reskilling of staff, according to the final report from the Joint Information Systems Committee-funded Staff Computer&IT Skills project (...
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Alarm over FBI 'big brother' spy program
Reports that the FBI has a program that can intercept private email messages is raising alarm among some of the biggest internet service providers in America - universities and colleges. Already...
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A solution or California dreaming?
British ministers, keen to learn from the United States, might like to study the decision of the state of California to extend its Cal Grant programme from next year (back page). The new scheme has...
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Free tasters and loyalty cards - an HE heaven?
In the fourth of our series on universities in the 21st century, Wendy Piatt envisages a world of differential fees, scholarships, foundation degrees and infinitely adaptable curricula It is...
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ILT recruiting tactics queried
Like many other readers, I have pondered this summer whether or not I would support the Institute for Learning and Teaching. However, my mind was made up for me after reading the announcement that...
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ILT recruiting tactics queried
Your brief item, "Health workers offered ILT membership" (For the record, THES, August 18), was misleading in omitting to say that "registered nurses, midwives and health visitors who qualified with...
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Marked race card
Your editorial fingers are, as uncannily as ever, on the pulse of the profession and the wider national mood (Books, THES, August 18). In a week when the academic disinclinations of Britain's...
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Nurturing rapport
I was encouraged to see that Agony Aunt (Teaching, THES, August 18) was approached by a new research supervisor seeking advice on how to build a good rapport with students, but deeply depressed by...
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DFEE's role in Derby
The Quality Assurance Agency report on allegations against University of Derby operations in Israel raises issues the sector needs to address urgently ("Minister says UK tarred by Derby affair", THES...
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DFEE's role in Derby
It is not true that the QAA 1998 audit of the University of Derby's link with Israel failed to spot the weaknesses on which we reported earlier this month. As with many such links we found strengths...