Europe to strengthen LatAm links
Many Latin American executives still look to North America for their management training needs, but signs of a shift in focus to Europe were visible at a recent conference in Barcelona. More than 200...
Search
-
-
Incubator helps to nurture research and commerce
Belfast's first e-business incubator has just opened in the Springvale Education Village, the pioneering peaceline initiative involving Ulster University and the Belfast Institute of Further and...
-
Suspended animation
(Photograph) - Suspended animation: Richard Lampitt of Southampton Oceanography Centre checks the light quality of the lasers on the £1 million 3D camera that is designed to record plankton life more...
-
Britain attracts NI students
The number of full-time undergraduates from Northern Ireland on courses in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland has risen by 64 per cent over the past decade to 38,414 in 1999-2000. The...
-
Let's make a date
Yet another reason to read The THES: check on your forthcoming engagements. Andrew Cubie discovered last week through our news pages that he had been scheduled to give evidence on student support to...
-
Lessons of Milosevic's fall
Academics put up little resistance to Milosevic, but they have been quick to act after his fall, says Goran Milicevic. Serbian universities have awoken quickly from the lethargy into which they had...
-
Shopping and sex get even more appealing
People who enjoy themselves without feeling guilty are less likely to become ill, according to researchers at Hull University. Eating chocolate, drinking, shopping and sex were all given the seal of...
-
Clarification
Not all the institutions identified as missing benchmarks in the article on performance indicators ("Paisley puts the elite to shame", THES, October 6) had missed them by a statistically significant...
-
Member states urged to raise research funds
Cern, the European particle physics laboratory, will lose its place as a front-runner in fundamental particle research because some member states refuse to increase their contributions, laboratory...
-
Blair confirms David King appointment
Tony Blair, the prime minister, has confirmed that Cambridge University chemist David King will succeed Sir Robert May as the government chief scientific adviser. South African-born Professor King is...
-
Sheffield Hallam centre strives for victory
Sheffield Hallam University has launched a £5 million Centre for Sport and Exercise Science to develop Britain's Olympic stars and world-class performers. Steve Cram (pictured below), a former 1,500m...
-
Whistleblowers' complaints analysed
An analysis of complaints received by the Further Education Funding Council between January last year and March this year reveals that there were 19 allegations of fraud and irregularity made by...
-
Edinburgh tackles student depression
Edinburgh University marked Scottish Mental Health Week with leaflets and cards urging students to seek help before problems become unmanageable. The university's centre for theology and public...
-
Art college calls off merger talks
The governors of Edinburgh College of Art this week called off merger talks with Heriot-Watt University, after a decision to bid for "small specialist institution" status. The college has had links...
-
Support mature student force, says Blackstone
Universities should do more to attract and support mature students, who now outnumber under-21s in higher education, Baroness Blackstone, the higher education minister, said this week. Universities...