Incontinence after childbirth could soon become a thing of the past as doctors from the University of Plymouth's Postgraduate Medical School investigate whether pelvic floor exercises could save the...
THE chemical make-up of plans could hold the key to understanding cancer and heart disease, new research suggests. Emma Lloyd, a chemistry lecturer at Leicester University, has established how...
Luigi Berlinguer has his hands full. As Italy's first minister for both schools and higher education, including scientific research, he is spearheading a radical renewal of the country's entire...
ETHNIC Albanian students in Kosovo are keeping up the pressure on the Serbian government to allow their return to the University of Pristina. United Nations special emissary on human rights,...
VARIATIONS in research income between different medical schools are greater than ever, with some schools receiving ten times more money than others, it was claimed this week. Sir Keith Peters, regius...
RECORD numbers of students have been admitted to Russian universities for the second year running, reversing a decade of decline. Admissions to state and private universities are expected to exceed...
NEEDY South African students saddled with large study loans should be able to pay them off partly through community service work that also teaches skills, earns academic credit, benefits universities...
NEW YORK financial markets have been open for just ten minutes, but already heads are bent over monitors where colour-coded financial information from Reuters and Dow Jones is continuously updated at...
Almost twice as many people in Britain are now employed in the arts and cultural industries as in the motor industry. Similarly dramatic figures, though widely varying, are put on the amount these...
If academics were twitching about the way in which research has been treated in the Dearing aftermath - relegated to the sidelines while teaching and learning receive all the attention - they will...
For more than a century, the most direct career path to high office in Britain has been to study classics at Oxbridge. Specifically, the Oxford "Greats" degree (Greek, Latin, ancient history and...
Advances in biotechnology must be life-enhancing and not dehumanising, says John Battle Biotechnology is fast becoming a major global industry. That much is beyond doubt. Equally certain is the fact...
It is time to introduce a stricter system for awarding chairs, writes Ken Stout SINCE the early days of the education system, the position of professor has been widely sought by academics as a mark...
I FEEL sure that the general secretary of Unison will wish to set the record straight and deny the remark attributed to a spokesperson for his union (THES, October 31) that the Association of...
BARONESS Blackstone (THES, October 24) points out with some justification that quality rather than quantity is the key issue in the education of our science and engineering students. However, I hope...