Malay teacher status boosted by new university
Malaysia is planning to build a university for teacher training within the next three years and is upgrading all teacher training courses to diploma level from next month. Education minister Datuk...
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Welsh face cash choice
Welsh universities and colleges have been presented with a choice of two systems to make research funding more selective. Resources for postgraduate research will focus on areas rated at 3 or above...
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Mad tie disease
Though scientists are traditionally supposed to be media-shy, some are positively enjoying all the publicity over mad cow disease. Leeds maverick Richard Lacey - who starts with the advantages of a...
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South Bank strikers blame injunction
Lecturers fighting mass redundancies at London's South Bank University claim they have been forced into taking strike action because of a threatened injunction from university solicitors. Natfhe...
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Essay winner
Barbara Spender is the first winner of the Menerva Trust/THES competition for the best essay on women in society, with an autobiographical perspective on women writers. She is a mature PhD student at...
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Medics flood wards and try patients
Calls for a new medical school to teach rising numbers of medical students were made by the British Medical Association this week. The association's annual meeting voted for a new school after it...
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It's fees or standards, says London chief
A clear choice between introducing top-up tuition fees and allowing standards to fall faces many of Britain's cash-starved universities, the vice chancellor of the University of London has claimed,...
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Violence rocks South Africa
Student unrest has hit nearly a third of South Africa's 35 universities and technikons in the past two months in what many people believe has been a combination of student organisations flexing their...
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Flywheel puts extra energy into the future of urban driving
The efficiency of passenger cars could be improved dramatically by research at Newcastle University aimed at developing "hybrid" vehicles powered by a flywheel in addition to a conventional engine....
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Flights of fancy
Edinburgh University principal Sir Stewart Sutherland, first speaker at the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals' annual forum, was charged with informing delegates about the fire exits...
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Cambridge on Spielberg's list
British actor Ralph Fiennes has negotiated a $50,000 donation from Steven Spielberg for a visiting lectureship in modern Jewish studies at Cambridge University. Fiennes, who starred in Schindler's...
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Refounding father
Pakistan, described as the third most corrupt country in the world, needs a saviour. Can Imran Khan and a Gandhiesque film of the country's founder, produced by a Cambridge academic, do the trick?...
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German push on 'tiger' market
Germany must make its higher education more attractive to foreign students - especially from Asian countries - if it is to earn a place on the international higher education map, says the German...
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Top v-cs lose council posts
Heavyweight vice chancellors have been voted off the ruling council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Sir Colin Campbell, vice chancellor of Nottingham, and John Stoddart,...