In Opinion (THES, September 20) Richard Barry uses the fact that 37 engineering faculties require lower grades for admission than all but two in the humanities as evidence for the existence of a long...
Seen much in the papers about last week's Leeds University conference on media ethics? No, us neither. One possible explanation is contained in a letter from the organisers to a potential participant...
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
Bridging the access gap for the 16-18 age group has emerged as a high profile issue, with students, vice chancellors and the Labour party all making it a priority. The announcement by the Committee...
Governments and universities should seize the opportunities for tourism presented by higher education, a conference heard last week. Speaking to delegates attending "Tourism and Culture: Towards the...
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
Cheating in Australian universities is on the rise and the small number of students who are caught is only the tip of an iceberg, according to an associate professor of statistics at Macquarie...
On reading your headline "Pounds 5.8 billion" (THES, September 20), I think a personal reflection may cast some light on this problem. At the end of a working life, I, like Virginia Woolf, ask the...
Saturday. Got back from holiday late last night. Threw daughter's washing in the machine before bed. Get her packed and off to camp before getting ready for our collecting trip to the Czech Republic...
Education experts have challenged the Government's claim that teacher training standards are slipping in higher education. New research findings suggest that, contrary to assertions by ministers,...
The careers of contract researchers could be markedly improved with clearer job descriptions, formal and regular job appraisal and a statement on competencies and targets, according to Sally Wheeler...
The Liberal Democrats face up to figures that won't add up. The Liberal Democrats have gone back to the drawing board on costing their proposals for a new further and higher education funding system...
Indignant denial, from a source close to the University of Hertfordshire, of our suggestion (September 6) that the university bus service might start refusing to allow passengers to leave until they...
Universities have been asked to consider reviewing their PhD programmes in the light of new evidence showing that the traditional thesis-based approach may be out of date. A UK Council for Graduate...
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. The good intentions of young "liberated" couples to share domestic chores get thrown to the...