Not obscuranto
The hunt for outstandingly obscure journals has upset readers conversant in Esperanto. A number contacted us after the Australian publication Esperanto sub la suda kruco was nominated, informing us...
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Useful rockers
A good week for rock music. Not only has Elvis been recruited to attract students to a theology course, Rock of Ages, at Trinity College, Carmarthen, by studying his lyrics, but Noddy Holder and his...
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Planetary movements
Amateur astronomer Steve Reid has created his own observatory out of an old septic tank. Mr Reid paid £3.50 for the second-hand glass-fibre sphere that was once connected to a toilet. He cut it in...
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The quest is to produce independent learners
Universities must wake up to the challenge from rival sources of higher education, writes Peter Coaldrake Over the past two decades, in almost all Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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Security fury at Wits after clashes over Peres visit
The University of Wi****ersrand has protested at the failure of organisers to involve it in security arrangements for a meeting to be addressed by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres. South African...
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Tackle student gripes 'head on', study urges
Universities across the developed world need to respond to student complaints, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development study suggests. The study, part of the OECD's programme on...
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Aid funds pay for education costs of 9/11 families
A student aid fund set up for families hit by the September 11 attacks has handed out almost $1 million (£640,000) in loan relief and scholarships over the past ten months. More than 50 partners of...
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Next week in the THES
News Colleges go deep into higher education territory Features Hello out there: Colin Pillinger asks if there is life on other planets Vive la union : European universities link up to create joint...
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Exchanges move up agenda after terrorism
A year after the September 11 terrorist attacks, US students consider international educational exchanges significantly more important than they were before that date, says an Institute of...
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Cut our tuition...or the fish die
Tuition fees of €500 (£317) a semester - to take effect in 2004 - have provoked a hostage crisis in the city of Hamburg. Fees are so controversial in Germany that when the government of Hamburg...
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Overseas numbers increase in France
An overseas recruitment campaign and simpler entry procedures have helped raise the number of foreigners studying in France, even though the agency set up to attract overseas students has admitted...
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Universities delay funding deals to try to derail fee capping
New Zealand universities are using the government's fee stabilisation deal as a bargaining card to delay legislation that would allow the government to set maximum limits on tuition fees. The...
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Don's diary: Magnetic migration music
Have you noticed that there are fragments of audio tape flapping in the wind? They can be found all over the place. The fact that music can cross boundaries is well known, but this is physical......
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In the news: Matt Barr
Matt Barr is prepared to die. The 21-year-old art student at Brighton and Hove College is a peace protester, part of a British delegation preparing to go to Baghdad, where they intend to act as "...
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Much ado about nothing
It was a title that could not fail to catch the eye - "Nitrous Oxide and William Shakespeare". Was laughing gas to be revealed as a secret ingredient in the Bard's comedies? Alas, no. The paper, to...