Monday The sign over the (very imposing) main university entrance reads: "Get an Addis Ababa University Degree, not an HIV/Aids certificate". In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, Aids is...
Media speculation about Pete Townshend's encounter with child pornography centred on the question: Was he really doing research into the issue or was he just another sick punter? I have always found...
Key points Universities must draw up an access agreement to improve access for disadvantaged students before they are able to increase tuition fees This agreement will be supervised by an access...
Undergraduates 16,610 Postgraduates 5,840 Proportion from low social classes 21% Hefce teaching income £51m Hefce research income £22m Income from Hefce 36% Russell Group member Liverpool University...
Key points Expansion of vocational degrees Streamlining of accountability burden Some further education colleges to receive direct funding from Hefce Further education colleges and universities are...
Les Jervis, associate dean of science at Plymouth University, set out to be a research scientist, but teaching and administration came to overshadow his research. Dr Jervis opposes any policy that...
The National Union of Students executive has been accused of racism by its black students committee after an African student was barred from an executive meeting. The black students committee has...
Scotland's higher education institutions have won an extra £10 million from the government to improve access for students with disabilities. And the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Further...
Last week's soapbox piece by Mike Emmerich, Gerry Stoker and Dan Corry should have read: 'So to avoid further disadvantaging poorer students, the greater the emphasis on top-up fees, the larger and...
Palestinian students are struggling to complete studies as financial support falters. Alex Klaushofer reports. As Israelis prepare to go to the polls, The THES looks at the impact of conflict on...
Israeli students believe that many Britons fail to understand the complexities of the Middle East crisis, reports Chris Bunting. For Uri Enoch, the most depressing thing about Israel's general...
The Third Reich has been rehashed and repackaged so many times that some are starting to think Britons have an unhealthy fascination with it. But, says Huw Richards, experts believe there is still...
He's spent 25 years on the battlefield, but the closest that historian Brigadier Richard Holmes has ever come to live action is on TV, says Adrian Mourby. Richard Holmes arrives at his club in St...
The Taliban is out and western aid agencies have flooded in. But are they there to help Afghans or to pursue their own homegrown agendas? Leonard Stone reports. The 8.30am flight from Dubai to Kabul...
Barnacles are undergoing sex reversal, male birds are taking over female nest-sitting duties, the male-to-female ratio in alligators is skewed and even humanity is experiencing changes. Martin Ince...