Overseas briefing
JapanDegree standards may be risingThe university graduation rate in Japan fell to 84.6 per cent in the last fiscal year, according to a survey of 500 universities by Japanese newspaper Yomiuri...
JapanDegree standards may be risingThe university graduation rate in Japan fell to 84.6 per cent in the last fiscal year, according to a survey of 500 universities by Japanese newspaper Yomiuri...
TVU leads league table for getting students into employment. Phil Baty and Hannah Fearn report
In determination to earn top degrees, students now socialise less, writes Rebecca Attwood
An HEA survey shows that teaching is still valued less than research, not least because of a lack of accord on how to assess it, writes Rebecca Attwood
It's been a good year. In 2007-08, academic pay rose more rapidly than the national average. Vice-chancellors took home the big money, but thanks to the credit crunch, this year may be the high-water...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2005 Full text of Document 2097/1/05 Revision 01 Working party will meet on the above date in order to finalize the following text from a legal and linguistic point of view:...
Brussels, 06 Jun 2005 Full text of Document 2097/05 Working party will meet on the above date in order to finalize the following text from a legal and linguistic point of view: Recommendation of the...
Munich, 10 Jul 2006 In leaked documents the Commission criticises the European Patent Office (EPO) as a "business culture of its own" that considers EU interferences in patent law "as an attack on...
May I add a comment in support of Sir David Weatherall's review of James Le Fanu's Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine ("Pasteur is good, but don't forget pastor too", THES, October 8)? In 25...
Australia's first private university set up by a public institution is to close after eight years and losses of at least A$20 million (£8.4 million). When Alan Gilbert, the University of Melbourne's...
Paris, 03 Feb 2006 Full text [...] FOREWORD The Compendium of Patent Statistics 2005 provides the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. Patent indicators presented in this...
An overseas student adviser is facing a possible jail term after being found guilty of providing illegal immigration advice. Tony Otto was found guilty at Kingston Crown Court this week of providing...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 Full text of Document 14076/02 No. prev. doc.: 12689/02 ENV 539 AGRI 230 WTO 125 CONSOM 86 MI 194 CODEC 1192 No. Cion prop.: 12213/02 ENV 501 AGRI 213 WTO 110 CONSOM 79 MI 177...
Delay term to aid fair entry, say top v-cs Two prominent university heads declared for the first time this week that they would be willing to delay the start of the academic year to make it possible...
Academics say the resources squeeze is forcing alarming compromises. Phil Baty reports on the results of an exclusive poll On the face of it, the statement by Les Ebdon, Luton University's vice-...