Safety first
(Photograph) - A masked student mans the barricades at Zimbabwe's University of Science Education in the farming town of Bindura where 200 students clashed with police after demanding that the...
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Belgrade
Serbian interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic has been accused of using the student-based opposition group Odpor as an excuse for introducing a state of emergency in Serbia. He called Odpor a "...
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Oviedo
Umberto Eco has been awarded Spain's 19th annual Principe de Asturias Communication and Humanities prize. Manuel Olivencia, president of the jury, described Professor Eco's novels and semiotics as "...
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NUS internet role
The National Union of Students has launched its response to the demands of students for full internet commerce services. The union now offers free email services to its 3 million members, free...
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IT takes the e-learning back seat
As new knowledge experts converge in Vancouver for the World Education Market, Alison Goddard highlights the key themes The business of e-learning in Europe is conducted very differently from its...
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Virtual university bridges digital divide
George Eshiwani, vice-chancellor of Kenyatta University, will tell a conference session on universities and the global sector that the African Virtual University provides the continent with a way to...
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Canada's free trade fear
As they look over the rows and rows of World Education Market booths dedicated to selling educational technology, Canadian policy-makers will be reminded next week (May 24-) of how many private...
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Media deal is future for U21
Alan Gilbert, Universitas 21 chairman and vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, arrives in London today for three weeks of "intensive negotiations" to turn the memorandum of understanding...
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Thurrock v Thanet
Your claim that the Isle of Thanet is "the largest population centre in the country without its own higher education provision" ("New campus brings hope to Thanet", THES, May 12) is disputed by my...
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Old English lives: outside Oxford
Valentine Cunningham's gleeful response to the demise of compulsory Old English at Oxford (Soapbox, THES, May 12) seeks to escalate a local squabble into a national trend. Evidence suggests that Old...
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Old English lives: outside Oxford
It is hard to disagree with Cunningham's cheerful valediction to compulsory Old English at Oxford. In the university marketplace the onus is on those who teach it to make it attractive (which is...
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Old English lives: outside Oxford
Cunningham's problem seems to be with Beowulf itself. Citing Kingsley Amis's quite spectacularly daft comment is really a bit too selective, especially as Amis said in his memoirs that he had come to...
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Hard slog and grunge
The distinction between self-driven and externally driven choices in academic work that the vice-provost of University College London makes ("Unpaid slog sustains research", THES, May 12) is facile....
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Hard slog and grunge
I am sure that the director of finance at Heriot-Watt University is basically right when he says that "the only thing keeping higher education going is academics working their balls off". However, he...
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Hard slog and grunge
If the core activities of teaching and research are not to be driven further to the fringes of our working lives by the rising tide of "grunge" then we need to be much tougher on grunge and its...