(Photograph) - Signed up: Julius Nyerere, the former president of Tanzania, gives a speech accepting an honorary degree from the University of Ottawa at the opening of the Association of Commonwealth...
A woman who claimed she suffered psychological damage because she was not given a place at the same medical school as her identical twin sister has won a significant victory over the Dutch university...
International experience in prison reform is helping make Ukrainian penal colonies more humane as the republic struggles to shake off Soviet-era systems. A pioneering partnership project between the...
A CAMPAIGN by the Estonian army to recruit young men for a year's service between school and university has flopped. Nationwide, only three young men have so far volunteered. The plan was that...
TRAINING local government officers may not seem like a mould-breaking revolutionary activity, but the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration is leading the way in changing Ukraine education. It...
Israel's Association of Secondary School Teachers has struck a controversial deal with Derby University to supervise teachers wanting to do a further degree at the British university's local...
UK universities' case for more public money is weak, says Stewart Wood in the third of a five-part series on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing HE The recently announced "...
My colleague Mike Shattock makes some interesting points about our universities (THES, August 14). But the United Kingdom continues to live on past glories and overestimates its importance in world...
The article by the former head of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, Derek Burke (THES, August 14), was very revealing and profoundly worrying. He seems to have understood his duty...
Peter McGuffin ("At the cutting edge", THES, August 14) tells us that the reports of his claim to have discovered a gene for bad luck were embarrassing and inaccurate. The genetic inheritance his...
LATER this year the government intends to issue a green paper on stakeholder pensions. Earlier this year the Association of University Teachers drew attention to the level of stress among university...
I AM not surprised by the reactions of some universities to the flunk rates published in The Push Guide to Which University 99 (The THES, "Fury over flunk figures", August 14). They make...
I have an Oxford MA but, unlike K. D. M. Snell (THES, August 14). I regard it as as "real" degree, for which I studied hard. I now teach undergraduates who graduate with an MA, as students have done...
K. D. M. Snell is quite right. I hold two MAs that might be regarded as spurious. One is a Scottish first degree, requiring four years' study. The other cost me Pounds 5. 1 also have a postgraduate...
Your report on Phil Sabin's research into the mechanics of battle in the second Punic war unfairly criticises Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus for creating the impression that battles involving...