Police officers and archaeologists will be classmates on a new postgraduate course at Bourne- mouth University. The school of conservation sciences is launching a course in forensic archaeology to...
Sweden is to recentralise university and college admissions despite protests by Sweden's university and college rectors. Social Democrat education minister Carl Tham won parliamentary approval last...
What a strange letter from Simon Batterbury about his colleague, David Marsland. Why does he assume that readers are unable to distinguish between the views of an individual and the university for...
Before writing "The first woman president of the American Economic Association is now in office" on McCloskey's review of Women of Value (THES, May 31) you should have checked your facts. You owe an...
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...
As a lass living in Yorkshire, Dame Diana Rigg had no problems getting a discretionary award from her local council to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Now she might not be so fortunate....
The Bar Council was bracing itself for a heated debate this weekend over plans to make law graduates complete six months training in chambers before becoming barristers. The proposal, due to be...
Clapped-out laboratory equipment in institutions is forcing multinational firms based in the UK to shift their university research to other countries, according to a report published yesterday. The...
England will win the European Football Championships. And the final will be watched by an audience of around 500 million people, writes Huw Richards. The odds are that the second of those statements...
Top African academics are hoping to raise cash for a research university for the continent in order to cut the brain drain and reliance on foreign staff, as well as providing a safe haven for...
There is nothing like a test to concentrate the mind, but what if you never fail? Alex Millmow looks at Australian policy Examinations. The very word arouses fear and rank uncertainty. The fear is...
Friday. Arrive Jan Smuts, Johannesburg at breakfast time to 70 degrees of sunshine, quickly blighted by the realisation I am short of one bag. Relieved to say that at least the suitcase carrying the...
The legality of dismissals of one in five of Hungary's academics and other higher education staff is escalating into a constitutional crisis after conflicting findings by the courts and the ombudsman...
The dean of the troubled Southampton Solent campus based in Athens, Veroni Papatzimou, has resigned. Her decision precedes a ballot of all staff working for Southampton Institute, which runs the...
Universities and colleges are facing a bill for millions of pounds following the removal of VAT exemption on the cost of staff recruitment adverts. City financial consultants estimate that some large...