British universities are rushing to China on undergraduate recruitment drives to make up for the shortfall they have suffered from other countries in the region. According to the British Council in...
SPENDING on social science research in China has doubled in the past five years, but academics are still calling for more money. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences last year received 177 million...
PROPOSALS for a "student centred" method of funding Australia's universities and criticisms of current practices have raised an outcry among academics, students, postgraduates, vice-chancellors and...
(Photograph) - Bangladeshi police arrest Dhaka University students suspected of being involved in campus gun battles. One student was killed and several injured in an hour-long fire fight between...
A STRIKE by lecturers at a Canadian university was settled two days after students served legal papers on both its president and the head of the staff union. A tentative agreement has been reached...
THE Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has savaged the standards of teaching for undergraduates at top United States research universities. In a report just published, it concludes...
"PLUS ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" was possibly not an expression used by Tony Blair in his recent speech to the French National Assembly in Paris. But it is a fitting starting point for my...
Labour has achieved much in its first year in office. Potentially most significant is its success in carrying through John Major's initiative and securing a peace deal in Northern Ireland - if...
Amartya Sen, internationally renowned economist, says changes to higher education must address how to increase access for all while maintaining standards. Mark Twain described cauliflower as "nothing...
PATRICK McGregor is surely right to place considerable responsibility on the Treasury for the scale of Irish mortality in the famine of 1845-50 (THES, April 10). However, by placing so much weight on...
RAY MONK's review of Raymond Tallis's Enemies of Hope (THES, March 20) is mostly a carve-up of me. Tallis says his book began as a review of my Origins of the Sacred which "got out of hand". Monk...
THE fact that the Higher Education Funding Council for England may have decided to reward teaching excellence on the basis of Quality Assurance Agency assessments (THES, leader, April 17) does not...
I HAD assumed that by now some more balanced response would have greeted the self-serving bluster about the QAA in your issues of March and April 3. The salaries and universities of Mantz Yorke and...
PETE Mann's advice to postgraduate research students to trust more in tacit knowledge is well-founded (THES Research, April 17). But his brief allusion to Michael Polanyi scarcely conveys his...
THE deletion of 78 posts at the University of East London (THES, April 3) sees Labour's "flexible" employment policy enacted. It sadly reflects the sometimes iniquitous double-talk prevalent among...