(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a corner of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, which is one of the few institutions praised in a report on the greening of universities for its...
The Student Loans Company had received more than 1.8 million applications for loans by mid-1995 and Pounds 1.8 billion of repayments was still outstanding, according to a National Audit Office report...
In an antidote to our "alumni to be proud of" series, Antithesis reports that Strathclyde University has one alumnus about whom it is certain not to boast. A copy of the University Review, sent to...
The Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College's announcement that it is to become an associate college of Ulster University is being seen as a tangible vote of confidence in the prospects of a...
A Belarusian pro-democracy activist, Andrey Romasheuski, deputy chairman of the Beer-Lovers' party, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with a student demonstration in...
University professor Isak Frumin spends most of his time at school. An associate professor at Krasnoyarsk State University, Siberia, Dr Frumin, a mathematician, is also head teacher of Russia's first...
Anna Tobin (THES, July 26) highlights a pressing problem in higher education: the inability of some academics to teach. If the lack of a teaching qualification is the problem, why are there so many...
MONDAY. Refreshed by a weekend away from my computer, I am awoken as ever by the noise of trucks passing my bedroom window on their way to Spitalfields market in east London. Even the double glazing...
A new wave of ethnic protest has broken out in Skopje, capital of Macedonia, following the sentencing of five academics of the unofficial Albanian-language University of Tetovo to terms of...
(Photograph) - Smelling of roses: David Aukland, graduate dean in the University of Manchester's faculty of engineering and science has devised a system that can translate cutting-edge research into...
The Malaysian government is facing calls for a public inquiry into the marketing practices of institutions keen to sell overseas franchise courses to the country's students. The inquiry could have...
The principal of Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, has been replaced. In a surprise move, Graham McConnell left his post by mutual agreement with the college governors last week and...
The viability of teacher training institutions in Northern Ireland is under threat because of falling entry requirements on the mainland, according to a Catholic college principal. Martin O'Callaghan...
The Church of Scotland hopes to implement a voucher scheme for continuing professional development which its ministers could use for postgraduate qualifications, writes Olga Wojtas. Sandy McDonald,...
Graham Dawson and Grant Lewison describe how their Research Outputs Database can show who is funding what where. Two recent articles in The THES have drawn attention to sources of research funding...