Universities should be allowed to charge realistic tuition fees to provide a high-quality education that is responsive to the demands of students. So argues Alan Smithers, professor of education and...
Brian Lang, chief executive of the British Library this week announced his departure from the library in May 2000. Dr Lang, who took up his post in 1991, said it was always his intention to leave...
Cambridge University is set to become the most expensive university outside London with planned rent rises of up to 47 per cent within five years, the university's students union claims. A recent...
Oxford University rowing is severely affected by the fire which destroyed University College boathouse earlier this week. The blaze destroyed the listed boathouse on the Thames and 40 boats belonging...
The great Giza pyramids and the Easter Island giant heads have been joined on a list of the 100 most endangered historical sites in the world by a cluster of medieval barns owned by Wadham College,...
A new National Educational Research Forum has been set up in response to high-level criticism that educational research is inaccessible, insufficiently practical and too small scale. The forum comes...
Winners of a prize draw at the University of Wolverhampton will receive Pounds 1,000 towards every year of study at Wolverhampton while two runners-up will receive Pounds 1,000 towards their first...
Thirteen of Scotland's 47 further education colleges have serious financial problems, accounting for almost 70 per cent of the sector's operating deficit, according to John Sizer, chief executive of...
The influence of the Teletubbies has spread from some of the youngest minds to some of the sharpest, as scientists and engineers at the Fermilab, near Chicago, confess that the children's television...
Executive education subjects still dominate the list of subject areas in which private universities and colleges forge links with corporate partners, according to an international survey by Corporate...
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Gordon Brown: 'The new economy of the next decade will need more competition, more entrepreneurship, more flexibility,...
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Baroness Blackstone has promised to raise the status of teaching in universities, particularly those that are research-...
Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Research Studentships Applications are now invited from prospective supervisors....
It was amusing to find in Kevin Jones's article on Fibonacci applications to verse and music (Research, THES, September 17) that the popular rhythmic jingle "Om tiddly om pom - pom pom" also works in...
There are dangers in using geodemographic classification or social class of applicants or accepted students to analyse the success or otherwise of higher education in widening access ("New data, same...