Brussels, June 2002 In the USA, €288 billion ($265 billion) was spent on research and technological development (R&D) in 2000, but only €164 billion in the EU. European Commissioner for...
Paris, June 2002 Comets are suddenly in vogue in space research. ESA is getting ready to send its comet chaser Rosetta in January 2003 to rendezvous with Comet Wirtanen and study it in immense detail...
Tories pledge aid for poor students Iain Duncan Smith unexpectedly made two policy announcements last night as he faced a hostile audience of young voters. The Conservative leader, in a special...
Moldovan prime minister Vasile Tarlev has banned the use of the term "Romanian language and literature" in official documents, including prospectuses and history textbooks in schools and universities.
The rector of Cyprus University, Nicolas Papamichael, has quit in protest against a parliamentary decision to award student bodies 33 per cent representation on departmental councils. At a heads of...
Researchers have found that defrosted meat can rapidly become contaminated with bacteria. The finding may partly explain the UK's food-poisoning epidemic. Work at the Centre for Cell and Tissue...
University College London is secretly identifying staff for job losses as part of its attempts to save £8 million. In a memo seen by The THES , Marilyn Gallyer, vice-provost of UCL, advises heads of...
News Parents who studied at old polys and their children who studied at new universities compare and contrast their experiences. Features Widening participation: are arts the answer? From Northern...
Almost 100 Italian researchers and academics are being encouraged to return to Italy with funding worth €12 million (£7.8 million). The researchers were selected from 163 applications. Most (20) are...
The Malaysian cabinet has introduced a 10 per cent quota for non-Bumiputeras (Chinese and Indian Malaysians) entering public universities next year.
Education's top civil servant has been taken to task by the Treasury over his department's persistent failure to spend billions of pounds allocated for universities and schools each year. David...
The grades students receive for their essays are "a lottery", say researchers in a study of universities' marking standards. Just half of tutors agreed on a mark for an essay while others took wildly...
The successor to the ill-fated individual learning account scheme will have tough security and quality assurance to guard against fraud, the government said this week. In its response to the...
A degree is a cut-price ticket to lifetime earnings of at least £400,000 more than non-graduates, according to new figures. The Higher Education Careers Services Unit figures confirm, and may exceed...
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week branded universities institutionally elitist as a two-year study found that selection procedures discriminated against the poor. Ms Hodge said...