In a league of their own
I am concerned that you attempted to demonstrate a university league table (THES, May 17) of entry requirements based on the A-level points expected to be asked of students for entry as published in...
I am concerned that you attempted to demonstrate a university league table (THES, May 17) of entry requirements based on the A-level points expected to be asked of students for entry as published in...
A Canadian psychology professor charged with sexual assault has been suspended for a year without pay from his university. Richard Freeman, whose alleged crimes of sexual assault and gross indecency...
Britain must become a nation of money-saving squirrels if it is to crack the nut of university funding, according to the right-wing thinkers of the Social Market Foundation. In a report, Memo to...
A House of Lords judgment could hit universities and colleges that have sent out negative references containing unsupported opinion. Michelle Brenton, a graduate from the Polytechnic of Wales, now...
Britain is not keeping up with its partners in Europe in internationalising its education system and its scientific and technological workforce, according to a new study, writes Kam Patel. The report...
Ian Christie's curiously contradictory article on media and film studies ("Lights, cameras . . . no action", THES, May 24) will add to the growing file of clippings over the past two years in which...
President Bill Clinton has scored a small victory in his long-running tug of war with the United States Congress over Americorps, his prized civilian national service programme. Evidence released...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has underlined its arm's-length approach to a single United Kingdom quality agency by vetoing the transfer of its quality assessment responsibilities to...
Princeton University has become ensnared in the bitter enmity over the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during the first world war. The prestigious private university, which celebrates its 250th...
(Photograph) - Taking the plunge: modern societies are full of risks, many man-made. Mad cow disease, genetically modified organisms, fertility-threatening chemicals, polluted water, the list grows...
Do we find certain people sexy because we have been unduly influenced by the anatomical preferences of a sculptor who has been dead for over 2,500 years? George Hersey looks at the enduring and...
An attempt to defuse the debate in Germany over tuition fees by the Gutersloh- based Centre for Higher Education Development provoked noisy student protests this month. Students demonstrated their...
Students on "fast-track" degree courses tend to out-perform their peers on traditional undergraduate programmes, a study has concluded. But they are also more likely to drop out, or to have problems...
David Marsland's continuing attempt to portray the welfare state as an unmitigated disaster is, as usual, wide of the mark. Although it has a number of shortcomings, the post-1945 welfare state has...