Put the fizz in physics
The physical sciences are often seen as hard and boring but one of the 24 learning and teaching support subject centres is aiming to change all that. Sharon-Ann Holgate reports. Do you want to make a...
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Adjustment to UK student life
Walking into a crowded student union bar can bea daunting experience for a Chinese student, coming from a culture where bars are not necessarily socially acceptable. Although Chinais changing and...
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Star Turn
Using computer simulations of molecular structures has enabled students at Essex University to visualise chemical processes and has improved their grades. Jennifer Currie reports. Teaching life...
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Wales will let you lord it for just Pounds 30,000
Social climbers with up to Pounds 30,000 to spare are being offered the chance to impress their friends with a bona fide aristocratic title in a money-making scheme being run by the University of...
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V-cs attack NHS revamp
Vice-chancellors have warned that proposals to change the way the National Health Service trains its staff and plans staffing could undermine the expansion in medical education announced last week....
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Liverpool archaeologist joins rush to rescue Turkish slice of history
Archaeologists from around the world are engaged in a desperate race to save the ancient city of Zeugma on the Euphrates River in southern Turkey. Mosaics regarded by archaeologists as some of the...
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Kuwait
Kuwait's parliament has passed the first round of legislation that will introduce private universities to the conservative Gulf state. Gender segregation is already in force in state universities and...
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Copenhagen
The Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University is to rebuild its main auditorium after its destruction in a gas explosion last month. The auditorium was completed in 1858 using special...
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Addis Ababa
Asmara Ethiopian and Eritrean students have refused to take part in the war between the two countries. A majority of students at universities in both capital cities has refused to volunteer.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is building more universities to achieve its aim of providing 40 per cent of 17 to 23-year-olds with higher education by the year 2010. Just 22 per cent currently receive higher education.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... ... Labour MP Jackie Lawrence argued that Oxbridge MAs should be scrapped. J.C. HORTON. University of Nottingham. Ms Lawrence claims Oxbridge MAs create an advantage in the...
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Where is the paperless office?
A survey of internet use has coined a new phrase - 'former user'. Steve Woolgar writes. The current rate of straightforward rapid expansion of use of the internet may not continue. This is one...
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Agony aunt
Q I am a lecturer nearing retirement but would like to continue helping students. Is it a good tactic to offer my services to my employer or is it better to seek consultancy work elsewhere? A BARBARA...
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Why we should beg to differ
Is it beneficial to differentiate between universities and polytechnics? Bryan Gould ponders the problem. When is a university not a university? This question is agitating New Zealand's new Labour...
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Shanghai
Four more Chinese universities have merged: Fudan with Shanghai Medical and Tongji with Shanghai Railway universities. Education minister Chen Zhili and Shanghai mayor Xu Kuangdi have promised both...