Online students advantaged
Students from poorer backgrounds who do not have access to a home computer could be disadvantaged during clearing, writes Alison Goddard. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service recorded 140...
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Greek students enrolling full-time falls by up to a third
The number of Greek students enrolling in full-time higher education in the United Kingdom has fallen by up to a third, according to figures issued by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service...
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Historical designs sought
British academics, from artists to engineers, are being given the opportunity to bring to life a piece of English history - 10,000 miles from home. Australia is planning to commemorate the signing of...
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TTA hits out at variations in teacher training
Unacceptable variations in the quality of teacher training are revealed in the second published annual performance profiles from the Teacher Training Agency. The profiles, of all 104 providers,...
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No fees for first-years is ruling party pledge on Canadian election trail
MONTREAL As Canadian tuition fees continue to soar, a provincial government that hopes to be re-elected next Thursday is offering a free year of university to high-school graduates. Saskatchewan's...
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Interest falls in benign orphan
When discovered in humans, the TT-virus caused a scare. Now that it is seen as harmless, the medical community's interest has waned. But this could be a mistake, Steve Farrar hears It is the disease...
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Top French institute censored
PARIS Lax administration, falsified payments and excessive granting of sick leave are among charges made in a damning report on France's principal education research institute. Philippe Meirieu,...
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Top unis link in distance battle
BOSTON Twenty-six top universities in the United States and Canada have united to promote their distance-learning courses in a single giant online catalogue for students in an effort to stave off big...
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Exclusive grant acts to tempt women
MELBOURNE An Australian university keen to bring more women into engineering has won a rare concession from equal opportunity bosses - the right to advertise and offer posts just for women. RMIT...
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Eyewitness
New Mexico's supreme court is considering whether the author of a critical biography of Jack Kerouac can continue to act as literary executor to the Beat writer's daughter, Jan Kerouac. The case is...
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Light my fire
About 2,000 years ago Plutarch observed that the student's mind was a fire to be lit, not a vessel to be filled (Teaching, "The fallacy of facts", THES, September 3). Dave Radlett Firelighter in law...
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A dangerous 1970s fashion
Larry Bunt says a national pay structure is a backwards step After an elephantine gestation, the report of the Bett committee into terms and conditions of employment in higher education was published...
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Readers reactions
Last week in The THES... James Tooley argued that British universities were churning out too many graduates and should have their state subsidies withdrawn If James Tooley believes jobs filled by...
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Britons with Aids opt for assisted suicide
British Aids victims who choose to end their lives are more likely to seek the assistance of a friend or family member than their American or continental counterparts. Cases of euthanasia and...
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Suicide row hits Aids research
A PhD student who has been carrying out ground-breaking research into assisted suicides and euthanasia among Britons with Aids is in dispute with Exeter University over guaranteeing the anonymity of...