Network to transform the learning landscape
Gajaraj Dhanarajan (left) argues that though the Commonwealth of Learning venture has its risks, not taking part is not an option When Commonwealth education ministers met in Gaborone, Botswana, a...
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Under the yoke of the generals
Nigeria's military rulers have eroded universities' freedom and funding, Tunde Fatunde reports The iron fist of 15 years of military rule in Nigeria and the continuing unwillingness of the generals...
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Wealth of opportunity
Commonwealth universities offer just the jobs for academics at both ends of the career ladder. Natasha Loder reports Fancy a university post that takes you to the Zambian Rift Valley or the palm-...
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Eyes, ears and advice for hire
The Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service aims to help universities. John Fielden explains In the alphabet soup of agencies undertaking comparative research in higher education a new...
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Cane may hold sweet fix for rice
British and Indian researchers on a new way to reduce farmers' great dependence on nitrogenous fertilisers. Kam Patel reports After ten years of research by British and Indian scientists, a ground-...
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THES fellow off to Kenya
Michael Dutton, the 1998 Times Higher Education Supplement Exchange Fellow (pictured right), will use his award to visit Moi University in Kenya to foster closer links between its faculty of health...
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Kiwis fear for the future of science
Many doubt that the science base will recover from government cuts and changes. Fiona Cassie writes from Christchurch The paring-back of a government commitment to boost research funding has left New...
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Springboks pick up research pace
Spurred by the government, R&D in South Africa is booming, reports Karen MacGregor from Durban South Africans glorify their sporting abilities but otherwise tend to be deeply self-deprecating....
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Nurturing a jewel of the Caribbean
British research students are helping to develop sustainable forest use programmes in Guyana. Cath Cotton reports Guyana, once regarded as the jewel of the Caribbean, is facing political and economic...
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Insurgent Mexican
Economist and frustrated politician Jorge Castaneda tells Huw Richards that Latin America's neo-liberal consensus is leading to a divided, violent society. His solution is to tax the middle class to...
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Bad news travelled too slowly
As civil servants face the BSE inquiry, Fred Pearce reports that experts learned of the disease informally (below) and hears a frustrated, ignored researcher (right) A sorry story of administrative...
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At the cutting edge
Peter McGuffin, who studies the role of genetics in the shared behaviour traits of families, continues a series in which leading academics discuss their ground-breaking research Hardly a week goes by...
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'Proof need have taken only a few days'
Bad news travelled too slowly. As civil servants face the BSE inquiry, Fred Pearce reports that experts of the disease informally (below) and hears a frustrated, ignored researcher (right) The...
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Domino effects at Wellcome
The new head of the Wellcome Trust, Michael Dexter (right), tells Alison Goddard why playing dominoes helps his work Humming softly, the heavy double doors swing open electronically to reveal the...
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Down but not out in London, Manchester...
Britain's housing shortage could be solved by renovating inner-city estates, argues Anne Power, in the latest in a THES series on social exclusion People who have nowhere to live are society's most...