Students told to pay their way
Upfront tuition fees are essential if universities in sub-Saharan Africa are to improve academic standards, build postgraduate programmes and stem the loss of faculty, a World Bank conference in...
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Gats rulings fuel cultural clashes
Norway has backed down from demanding access to South Africa's higher education market under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, but denies it has withdrawn a request for access that has...
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Rise in twin start dates in bid to boost enrolment
Twice-yearly start dates for university courses are growing in popularity amid fears of falling applications and disappointing enrolments. Several universities have introduced courses that run twice...
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War forces prince to drop study
A prince enrolled at Oxford University has had to abandon his studies to fight for his country. Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, the prince of Bhutan, left St Peter's College this week. He had been at Oxford...
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Scientists await PM answer on GM
The prime minister was expected to respond this week to a letter from 114 UK scientists complaining about the increasing hostility to, and lack of government support for, work on genetic modification...
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Targets make our kids go from Bard to worse
Obession with assessment is crushing creativity in schoolchildren, laments Ros King Do your first-year students complain that the course you teach is too difficult? Have you noticed that they are...
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Harry Kroto
If the key to learning a language is to start very young, isn't there an obvious solution to the current languages crisis? Education, education, education! Tony Blair said it three times to underline...
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Two close to call
The ballot on whether lecturers' union Natfhe should continue pay talks or go straight to a vote on industrial action was running neck and neck as The THES went to press. Postal strikes meant that...
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Welcome to the club
Welcome Sir Graeme Davies, the former principal of the University of Glasgow, who last month became vice-chancellor of the University of London. Vice-chancellors gathered in the capital last week...
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Beer mats go supersonic
A flip-friendly beer mat has been developed by two university researchers. Ian Johnston, an aerodynamics expert at the Open University in Edinburgh, and Hazel Lucas, who is doing a masters degree at...
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A subject to make you salivate
Chemistry week kicks off tomorrow, on the theme of pleasure. The Royal Society of Chemistry - noted for its more outlandish attempts at generating publicity - has printed T-shirts emblazoned with "...
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Burning question of money
In the wake of Hallowe'en, Dundee University students have discovered the cost of burning a witch. The students, investigating the role of women in the 16th and 17th centuries, found a ledger...
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Don's diary: a hot bot keeps scientists safe
Monday The box with the final version of "the rover" has just arrived from the UK. The modifications performed should overcome the drawbacks of the last trials. Over the past four years, many...
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Why I predict a looming staff crisis in higher education
A government minister who came to talk to local union activists at Leeds University declared that the problems of university staff were not high on the government's agenda because they were not...
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No ring of confidence
No researcher should be betrayed in the way Exeter betrayed me, insists Russel Ogden I interviewed more than 100 people in four countries during my PhD studies at Exeter University from 1995-98....