Students to pay 25% of course
The New Zealand government has cut subsidies to university students which it says will mean tuition fees rise by an average NZ$400 (Pounds 170) per student over the next five years. But critics are...
The New Zealand government has cut subsidies to university students which it says will mean tuition fees rise by an average NZ$400 (Pounds 170) per student over the next five years. But critics are...
The Story of Britain
Christmas can be lonely for overseas students but a new survey hopes to make it happier, Tony Tysome reports. The council for international education, UKCOSA, is planning to launch a national survey...
University of Reading Research grants Professor B. Hoskins, Drs P. Valdes and M. Blackburn, Pounds 65,907 from the NERC (development and use of an intermediate GCM); Dr A. Parker and Professor B....
Elaine Williams reports on a group of Oxford students for whom the academic challenge is not the only test they have to endure. Simon Uttley is one of the University of Oxford's growing number of...
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH SHORT STORIES. A. S. Byatt, editor. 439pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 19.99. - 0 19 21 4238 0. The short story in English is a well-mapped terrain; the English short...
No TV studio on election night will be complete without its academic. Huw Richards reports on a select breed Whatever the proclaimed disillusionment with party politics, general elections remain...
Student expeditions - adventure holidays for wannabe Livingstones? No, says Daniel Start, leader of the Cambridge group held hostage in West Papua. University expeditions are part of the...
Orthodox Jews have pleaded with Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks not to attend a memorial service for the liberal rabbi Hugo Gryn. Most non-Jews are mystified if not appalled at such an apparent lack of...
British scientists are hoping to answer the riddle of whythe dinosaurs died out by plumbing the depths of a huge Mexican crater. Lucy Hodges reports. This month a group of British scientists is...
The British seem reluctant to study in Eastern and Central Europe. Vittoria D'Alessio tries to unravel the mystery. If your lip curls in horror at the idea of languishing in bourgeois Paris or...
The Origin of Language - The Language Connection
The phallic function of language also cannot be forgotten. Some chance. Whatever else changes in academic life, the propensity of students to devise disconcertingly sexual imagery in response to the...
A Manchester team has produced a remarkable 'income return', 700 years later, Jeff Denton explains. Computer analysis of medieval tax records has detected scribes' errors which went unnoticed for...
The University of British Columbia has closed admissions in the wake of a controversial inquiry that found "pervasive racism and sexism" in its postgraduate political science course. The sanction is...