Vintage information
A patented production technique that uses microwaves to penetrate corks has been developed by Portuguese, German and Spanish SMEs working with a German research institute. The project was funded by...
Search
-
-
Spoken here
The British Council has launched a website designed to enable learners of all levels and ages to practise English. There are three learning zones: kids, teens and adults. When users enter they are...
-
Further facts
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has launched a new online database, InFact, giving detailed information on student enrolments in Scotland's 47 further education colleges. It includes...
-
The genome is just the start for biology
In its early days, cynics often termed the Human Genome Project an advanced case of "physics envy" - the biologists' lust for a big project to rival the particle accelerators and space telescopes of...
-
An isolated academy is no good for democracy
Academics should put politics aside and reach out to Serbia's long-suffering intellectuals, writes Dejan Djokic Exactly two years after the Serbian parliament ended the autonomy of universities, the...
-
Bretton Hall under inquiry
Daniel Stone, financial director of Bretton Hall College in Wakefield, has been suspended while an inquiry is carried out for the Higher Education Funding Council, putting pressure on the college's...
-
Gambling rise a lottery legacy
The number of households gambling more than 10 per cent of their weekly income has quadrupled since the introduction of the National Lottery, a new study has found. Analysis of official data by Paul...
-
Sheffield College set to axe 180 jobs
Lecturers' union leaders have condemned as "educational vandalism" plans to axe 180 jobs at Britain's biggest further education college, writes Tony Tysome. Representatives of Natfhe, the college...
-
Voices unite against top-up fees
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
-
Plan for 'instant' degrees abandoned
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....
-
Lima
Peru's university professors are pressing their government to subsidise the country's academic book publishers. Students are able to afford just one or two texts, often rendering course work...
-
Bologna
A study of 43,717 students who graduated from 18 Italian universities last year has shown that 83 per cent were over 25 when they completed their studies. More than 73 per cent came from families...
-
Dakar
Several hundred students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, capital of Senegal, stormed the Romanian embassy in protest at the presence of Romanian ship Dorient Flower, which was stopped by...
-
Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
-
Why I... sit on the fence about ghosts
Vic Tandy Experimental officer School of international studies and law Coventry University Almost everybody I know has some kind of ghost story to tell. I do not have anything against ghost stories...