The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee has flagged up further education as a key priority, writes Olga Wojtas. Convenor and Scottish National Party MSP John Swinney has...
A senior management negotiator for Scotland's new universities has defended proposals to cut academics' holidays by 20 days in their draft staff contracts. The "Partnership 2000" proposals have drawn...
The Economic and Social Research Council is funding a Pounds 5 million research programme on devolution and constitutional change, its outgoing chief executive Ron Amann has revealed. Professor Amann...
Howard Thomas, dean of the commerce of business administration at the Urbana-Champaign campus, University of Illinois, has been appointed dean of the business school at the University of Warwick from...
Bert Sakmann, director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, has been awarded the honorary degree of DSc (medicine) by the University of London at the first joint...
Monday Ten emails, two cups of coffeee. Organising a conference that brings together the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), the Henry James Society (US) and the Ford Madox Ford Society was never going to be...
Slow on the march They don't make Scottish students like they used to. Forty-five this week marched from Glasgow to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in a tuition fees and grants protest. They...
Psycho-linguistic expert Valery Belyanin has spent the past three years developing a sophisticated computer program that allows the user to delve behind the surface meaning of texts to discover the...
Some 759 Macao middle-school students have taken entrance exams for places at 71 universities and higher education colleges on the Chinese mainland.
A small college near Boston has turned into a national model for a new way of setting faculty salaries in the United States: profit- sharing. A salary formula for faculty at Wheaton College, hammered...
Recently in The THES... Is this art? we asked about The Degree Show, an installation by 14 Leeds students that essentially comprised work by long-established artists David Rodway Lecturer in art and...
Among an apparently feckless US student population, Harvey J. Kaye sees signs of a social consience One of television's most popular new series, Felicity, presents the trials and tribulations of a...
Australian universities will have to forge stronger links with industry and research money allocation will alter radically if the federal government's green paper on research, New Knowledge, New...
Lyons University has launched an appeal to rebuild its library after three-quarters of its books, manuscripts and journals were destroyed. A fire on the night of June 11-12 burnt an estimated 350,000...
The official number of Italian universities being pursued by the European Commission concerning the long-running case of job discrimination against foreign-language lecturers has dropped from nine to...