Disagreement still threatens the future of the new higher education quality assurance framework, with the Quality Assurance Agency agreeing to consult further on its plans to report teaching quality...
Britain triumphed in the 1999 Ig Nobels, the spoof awards, with three prizewinners honoured for academic celebration of the national obsession with tea. The humorous science journal Annals of...
The Ghanaian government closed Legon University after students protested against a tuition fees increase of about 500 per cent.
Investigations into financial irregularities at France's biggest student social insurance society have revealed that Marie-France Lavarin, media adviser to education minister Claude Allegre, received...
Microsoft and Adobe are battling to establish a readable alternative to the printed book. Tony Durham reports Microsoft has revived interest in e-books - book-sized machines for reading electronic...
Kumari Lane Reigate Last week in The THES... Jennie Bristow asked if university was the right place to educate gifted children. A university is an adult environment and it should provide an education...
The weevils will inherit the earth. Research by a scientist at the Natural History Museum in London has started to reveal how a super family of beetles, best known (erroneously) for adding unwanted...
Concerns that there is a growing burden of accountability in higher education have prompted the funding chiefs to commission research on the nature and extent of accountability arrangements....
Librarians may deplore what they consider the defacing of books, but researchers at Napier University see readers' marks as a celebration of identity. Academics from Napier's Scottish Centre for the...
Business leaders are to push for a radical restructuring of education and training to create an investment partnership between the individual, state and business. Employers are to be consulted on a...
Scotland's academics need to show greater intellectual courage in questioning the government's educational policy agenda, a Glasgow University expert has warned. Walter Humes, head of Glasgow's...
The Scottish Parliament offers hope of a coherent long-term policy for modern-language learning, a Russian expert believes. Edinburgh University senior lecturer Mike Falchikov, who last weekend...
Liverpool John Moores University has refused to release the report of an inquiry into complaints that students were given "totally incorrect" teaching material. But six months after Whistleblowers...
Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov has decreed the establishment of a Council for Spirituality and Education to ensure that citizens, particularly "educated" young people, are "profoundly aware of...
Fourteen demonstrators were arrested as philosopher Peter Singer arrived for his first day as professor of bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. Professor Singer has angered...