Durham rapped for racial insensitivity
The bishop of Durham has criticised the University of Durham for being racially insensitive and has called for equal opportunities training, following his investigation as the university's visitor...
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UK graduations leap into the top ranks
In less than a decade the UK graduation rate has risen from under 20 per cent to 35 per cent. David Jobbins reports on new figures that reflect the expansion of British higher education and its...
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Foreign students choose Britain
The United Kingdom has emerged as one of the world's leading recruiters of students from overseas, competing most strongly with the United States and, increasingly, Australia. The three countries...
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Dundee's big leap
Dundee University and the Scottish Enterprise Network have this week launched a Pounds 5.5 million company that could revolutionise the international microelectronics industry. Amcet Ltd, opened by...
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Harvard net ban
Harvard University has taken steps to restrict its faculty's outside teaching, research and consulting in a proposed policy change aimed at professors who provide courses or instructional materials...
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Ask the world
The government has launched a six-week consultation process via a new website to prepare for the publication of a white paper on international development in November. The Department for...
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Safety first
(Photograph) - A masked student mans the barricades at Zimbabwe's University of Science Education in the farming town of Bindura where 200 students clashed with police after demanding that the...
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Belgrade
Serbian interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic has been accused of using the student-based opposition group Odpor as an excuse for introducing a state of emergency in Serbia. He called Odpor a "...
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Oviedo
Umberto Eco has been awarded Spain's 19th annual Principe de Asturias Communication and Humanities prize. Manuel Olivencia, president of the jury, described Professor Eco's novels and semiotics as "...
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NUS internet role
The National Union of Students has launched its response to the demands of students for full internet commerce services. The union now offers free email services to its 3 million members, free...
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IT takes the e-learning back seat
As new knowledge experts converge in Vancouver for the World Education Market, Alison Goddard highlights the key themes The business of e-learning in Europe is conducted very differently from its...
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Virtual university bridges digital divide
George Eshiwani, vice-chancellor of Kenyatta University, will tell a conference session on universities and the global sector that the African Virtual University provides the continent with a way to...
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Canada's free trade fear
As they look over the rows and rows of World Education Market booths dedicated to selling educational technology, Canadian policy-makers will be reminded next week (May 24-) of how many private...
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Media deal is future for U21
Alan Gilbert, Universitas 21 chairman and vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, arrives in London today for three weeks of "intensive negotiations" to turn the memorandum of understanding...
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Thurrock v Thanet
Your claim that the Isle of Thanet is "the largest population centre in the country without its own higher education provision" ("New campus brings hope to Thanet", THES, May 12) is disputed by my...