St Andrews wins Pounds 1m place in the sun
The solar theory group at St Andrews University has won nearly Pounds 1 million over four years from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the largest award to go to a theory group....
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Italy under influence
More than 200 Italian academics, including such eminent names as economist Luigi Spaventa and linguist Tullio De Mauro, have formed an interdisciplinary think tank to influence the new Italian...
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Subject to change
A. H. Halsey is a sociologist and a social phenomenon. He began life on a London council estate and rose to become a professor at Oxford. But has his subject enjoyed a similar progression? Then......
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Law candidates put their cases
Five solicitors campaigning to become president or vice president of the Law Society have set out their case for better education and training in the legal profession. Candidates, announced late last...
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Doctoral research in standards limbo
The postgraduate research sector needs urgent review to secure better quality assurance, states a discussion paper published today. The paper, produced for the United Kingdom Council for Graduate...
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Government tightens control of the professions
Training for the professions is to come increasingly under the control of central government, according to a report out this week. The report investigates the "destruction" of partnerships between...
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Travelling payer
Go-getters in Dutch higher education are to get a bonus. Jo Ritzen, education minister, has allotted Fl1 million (Pounds 400,000) for an extra year's study abroad for the best students. The move is...
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Research fears as Spain cuts funds
Spain's new government is to cut education spending by 0.78 per cent cut as part of reductions intended to slash state expenditure by 4.5 per cent this year. How the cuts will be shared between...
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Mature way to learn
I was surprised by the "mature students" article reported in the (THES, June 7). It seemed to be the opposite of my experience as an undergraduate. I found tutorials, where the class was made up of...
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Crick and mind over natter
One theory of consciousness rules supreme, Tony Durham reports, while readers reply to one scientist's views. I can sympathise with Francis Crick's irritation that progress in consciousness research...
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L-plate barristers 'deserve better'
Trainee barristers deserve more money and better safeguards on the quality of their apprenticeships, according to a Bar Council report published this week. It recommends a minimum grant of Pounds 5,...
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A-level takers on the wane
The proportion of 18-year-olds taking A levels is declining, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service chief executive Tony Higgins said this week. Only 65 per cent of university applicants now...
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Paisley tunes into Skye groat song
Paisley University has become the first Scottish university to offer Gaelic speaking students the chance to study the Gaelic economy as part of their degree. The new option in Paisley's BA in...
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Bank chooses nuclear home
A casual observer walking along Lomonosovsky Prospect where it skirts Moscow State University's leafy campus could be forgiven for taking a second look at the large, new logo spread across the top of...
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Egghead attack on minister
The Polish minister of national education Jerzy Wiatr was hit on the head with an egg as he attempted to discuss higher education reform with the students of the country's oldest university, the...