(Photograph) - Students chant anti-government slogans near the presidential palace in Manila in their challenge to Philippine president Fidel Ramos's attempt to change the constitution so he can run...
THE Sabah Foundation has mounted a national campaign to get graduates to pay back their loans to enable other students to take advantage of its scholarships. About 100 east Malaysian graduates still...
Tokyo. SENIOR Japanese civil servants are sidestepping golden jobs in the business world when they retire to take lecturing posts with leading universities. Yoshimasa Nishimura, former director...
MALAYSIA is to grade public and private universities and colleges as part of its campaign to become a world-class centre for education. The south-east Asian country has ten state universities, four...
Privatisation and market forces in higher education have penetrated as far as the homeland of Genghis Khan. A package of education reforms introduced on the eve of the new academic year includes the...
Boston. THE GIFTED students who attend Stanford University often require special accommodation. But this semester may be the first time a new student needs two rooms - one for herself and her...
Montreal. A LAW doctorate proffered to Chinese president Jiang Zemin has sparked a debate over who should get honorary degrees in Canada. The University of Victoria senate voted last month to award...
Melbourne. AUSTRALIA's top universities fear their share of the world market for students is slipping because of bad publicity in Asia. They identify two causes: adverse publicity around the anti-...
Boston. TWELVE of America's biggest conservative foundations are pouring money into fellowships that support like-minded students and scholars, academic conferences, faculty chairs and scholarly...
In our second of our series recalling the big issues in the Dearing debate John Ashworth considers university management IT IS time to get back to basics. The primary job of the committee of inquiry...
This week Britain's university leaders have been meeting in private conclave in Strathclyde. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals have a number of thorny issues to confront. What are they...
Peter Scott looks at the post-referendum prospects for universities north of the border What are the prospects for Scottish universities in the context, first, of the likely evolution of the Union...
Geoffrey Alderman argues for a more rational, transparent and credible system of comparing universities and their achievements The Dearing report gives on the new Quality Assurance Agency the task of...
In his article, "Blunkett's funding muddle" (THES, August 29), Ben Jackson criticised the stance of the National Union of Students and student unions across the country for accepting the loss of...
With regard to "A work of art that's brutal to work in" (THES, September 5), there are a number of matters to dispute. First, when you first approached Sandra Dawson, it was with a request that we...