Taking a sweep shot
Ian Macdonald, chairman of the board of the Commonwealth of Learning, and speaker at a University of Abertay, Dundee conference for the heads of commonwealth universities in Africa, told them the one...
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Prescott in deep water?
Deputy prime minister John "two Jags" Prescott had a view of alternative travel at the University of Southampton last week. Staff at the oceanography centre told him about developments in marine...
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In the news
Sulky, monosyllabic and spotty, Kevin the teenager, the obnoxious creation of comic Harry Enfield, seems like an unlikely advocate of the government's "Don't Quit Now" campaign, which aims to...
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On the move
The University of Liverpool has appointed: Richard Gillespie, professor of Iberian and Latin American studies at the University of Portsmouth, to the chair of politics; Martin Leuwer, professor of...
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Why I...... believe that Jay Gatsby was black
Carlyle V. Thompson Assistant professor of American and African literature Medgar Evers College,United States Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's opulent playboy hero, was a black man. Fitzgerald...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Bill Stephenson asked whether A-level results are the fairest method of selecting students Daniel Thomson PPE student St Edmunds Hall Oxford University There has been much press...
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Glittering prizes
Lewis Wolpert, professor of developmental biology at University College London, has won the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of public understanding of science. He will...
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Eyewitness
Portugal's cork industry is so vital to the country's economy that it is illegal for a landowner to cut down a cork oak tree. "Bark police" patrol forests to prevent land clearance and to stop the...
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Paris
The Paris Institute of Political Studies is to introduce longer courses with a greater international dimension. Diplomas will be based on five years' post-baccalaureat studies, the equivalent of a...
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Florence
An architecture student at Florence University is preparing his degree thesis on the theory and practice of building sandcastles. Leonardo Ugolini is well known in the esoteric international...
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Legal bar threatens Pretoria's designs
The South African government's attempt to control overseas universities' operations on its soil has run into legal problems. Eben Boshoff, director of legal services in the education department, told...
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Ritzy Rome revealed
The British School at Rome, directed by archaeologist Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, is running the most ambitious archaeological project ever undertaken in the countryside around Rome. It involves scholars...
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Campus aims to heal Polish-Ukrainian rift
The first step towards the creation of a Polish-Ukrainian university in Lublin, southeast Poland, has been taken, with the formal foundation of the Polish-Ukrainian European College. The Act of...
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Rich buy places on top courses
Growing numbers of Australian universities are virtually guaranteeing a place to students who lack the necessary entry grades but who can pay the full tuition fee. Although only a dozen universities...
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Union puts a brake on online fever
An American teachers' union has fired a warning shot across the bow of the fast-growing web-based higher education market, declaring that undergraduate degrees must have some face-to-face contact and...