A range of European Union grants promoting studies of European law, politics, human rights and associated topics are to be grouped together in a programme to which any higher education institution...
Indonesia's university rectors have responded to a cut in government subsidies by introducing upfront admission fees and moving to replace the national higher education entrance examinations. The...
French historian Jean Plantin last week won an appeal to restore two postgraduate degrees that had been withdrawn on grounds of their Holocaust-related revisionism. But within days of the decision,...
Affirmative action is not perfect but it is the best way to ensure diversity in universities, says Sheldon Elliot Steinbach. The most contentious national issues in the US seem to wind up being...
March I am beginning to wonder whether this was such a good idea. Judging the AventisScience Book prize sounded rather prestigious, but looking at the four hugeboxes of books that have just arrived,...
Times are hard for universities, so institutions are becoming accustomed to developing novel ways of raising funds. Reading University has decided to sell some of its disused land and has made...
Some THES readers may have heard about the furore whipped up in the newspapers over a television show called Big Brother. Now, former contestant and physics graduate Jon Tickle is to be offered a...
Universities may not realise it, but the key to widening participation lies right on their doorstep. David Dunleavey, aged 40, has just graduated from St Andrews University with a degree in...
Members of the House of Commons select committee on education were in Prague this week to attend the European Access Network's annual conference. While David Chaytor, Labour MP for Bury North, was...
What course should I study and where? This is a decision that affects the life of every prospective student each year. The decision-making process is a difficult one and not undertaken lightly. Those...
Manchester merger plans threaten democratic university governance, warns Paul Cammack The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Manchester are due this...
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Figuring It Out
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work much admired by Oscar Wilde: "Judging by the few portraits preserved in the Chteau de Lourps,...
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