Students who leave the central Asian republic of Turkmenistan to study at overseas universities at their own expense have been barred from acquiring hard currency to pay for their courses. On the...
Business schools must teach MBAs to adapt quickly to a fast-changing world, says Eamonn Walsh As business schools come under increased scrutiny in the tougher economic environment, many believe that...
It is time we taught our students to speak mathematics - industry is in desperate need of such skills. A near-solitary point of agreement in higher education policy is that universities should all...
They practice what they preach at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Martin Isherwood, head of music, is composer of the UK's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest this year. His song, Cry...
Ian Gibson, chairman of the House of Commons science and technology select committee, was in Edinburgh this week for the launch of the Association of University Teachers Scotland's researcher job-...
Students are being offered up to £4.30 an hour to wear brand logos on their foreheads. The students must wear them for at least three hours a day while hanging out in highly visible locations such as...
The Uzbekistan version of The THES was closed on government orders this week for making grammatical errors, according to Russian television reports. The Uzbek minister of higher and general education...
A chance encounter with killer crustaceans led Paul Wood to delve into cave ecosystems, where he found an unlikely predator at the top of the food chain The freshwater shrimps we found deep in the...
As the Ig Nobel tour hits the UK, Laurie Taylor recalls his own flirtation with eccentric science I have a personal reason for liking the idea of the Ig Nobel prizes. In the 1970s, I rather fancied...
As the Ig Nobel tour hits the UK, a Bernard Levin lampoon from the days before science learnt to laugh at itself My well-known belief that all scientists are mad has just received support so...
As people around the world reflect on the initial success of London's congestion charge, Stephen Phillips meets the scientists trying to free our streets and get us moving It may have shocked the...
League tables impress few would-be students. Universities must be more imaginative in building brand identity, especially with top-up fees on the way, argue Jim Bodoh and Robert Mighall It is hard to...
William Wordsworth may have invented picnicking as we know it, and in doing so, says Andrew Hubbell, helped to reunite a war-weary England Some time at the dawn of the 19th century, William and...
Hammered by BSE, foot-and-mouth and the recession, British farmers are battling to survive. Matt Lobley and Matt Reed spoke to farming families in Devon feeling the pressure The past few years have...
Has anyone asked employers what they think of lowering admissions criteria for less-advantaged applicants ("Admissions war will be won only with imagination", THES , February 28)? Most students opt...