You have 200 students in your year group. They are all connected to each other by email. They are all connected to the internet. They are all intelligent. How can you be sure that their intelligence...
Fashion industry wannabes give up the summer sun for a crash course with a professional designer, writes Jennifer Currie. Summer and school may be the last two words you would expect to hear an...
Percentages? Grades? A mixture of the two? Paul Bridges wonders, is our marking system really fair? Is our marking fair? We would like to think so. We devote care to the design of assessments in...
The 750,000 potential students who have called the government's Learning Direct telephone helpline have been given "out of date or incomplete" information, college leaders have warned. As little as a...
The international community has failed to prevent Serbian academics and students from being "driven out of their homes and expelled from Kosovo", Jagos Zelenovic, rector of the Belgrade-backed Serb-...
The ancient visitor method of settling disputes between universities and students is in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, an academic lawyer has warned. Tim Birtwistle...
An entrepreneur selling fake degree certificates on the internet has been hit with a High Court injunction, over two years after The THES exposed the controversial business, writes Phil Baty. The...
Two weeks ago in The THES... We asked whether all first-year students should be vaccinated against meningitis Name and address supplied It is an extremely good idea to vaccinate students against...
In an Africa beset by wars and Aids, Brenda Gourley explains how to help African girls get an education. Even a month ago I would never have imagined that I would become a proponent of a women's...
A commemoration of the 700th anniversary of the Ottoman historical and cultural heritage in Istanbul to be staged by the Council of Europe later this month has been postponed because of last month's...
WHAT: There is a fine line between legitimate collaboration and collusion, says Jennifer Moon. WHY: Team working is to be encouraged but lecturers must know how to spot unfair practices. HOW:...
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Only time will tell if HEFCE's new fund to redress the balance between teaching and research will succeed, says Alison Utley. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is now taking the...
Monday Arrive at crowded Istanbul airport to attend a week-long theoretical physics conference at Bogazici (Bosphorus) University. Tuesday Awakened by what I take to be a mechanical excavator outside...
King's 1, Argentina 0 Years of underfunding in higher education there may have been, but King's College, London, is in better financial shape than many major cities and even countries. Credit ratings...