As Spain's ruling Popular Party savours victory at the polls, academics are critical of the government's record on universities but cautiously optimistic for the future. "The last legislature was not...
Two Polish academics, held by Chechen kidnappers since last August, have been freed after 208 days in captivity. Zofia Fiszer-Malanowska, 66, and Ewa Marchwinska-Wyrwal, 56, environmental biologists...
Highly publicised accusations of mass cheating at two of America's top universities have turned out to be embarrassing glimpses at how quickly faculty and administrators seem to be willing to think...
South African higher education is soon to undergo "root-and-branch transformation" that includes a new programme-based subsidy system and radical structural changes to the size and shape of the...
Two senior Australian academics have endorsed the United States model of semester-based appointments, where staff are engaged for nine months a year and may then undertake consultancies or be paid by...
A Canadian student who had to delay her studies after undergoing two operations, cancer therapy and giving birth has been refused any leniency on paying back her student loans. Six months after being...
Electronic entrepreneurs from Staffordshire University have put together a multi-million pound deal to take their vision of the perfect weekend online. Chris Loughlin and Rueben Yau, graduates from...
Reforms of civil court hearings will lead to fewer academics being called as expert witnesses. The measures, drawn up by Lord Woolf and brought in last year, are expected to restore mutual trust...
Twelve top Parisian universities, grandes ecoles and engineering schools have banded together to create an incubator that will help students and researchers start high-tech companies. Founding...
A report out next month will suggest the creation of a national advisory centre on copyright to help ensure universities do not lose out on valuable potential income. The report's author, Ralph...
Admiral House 66-68 East Smithfield London E1W 1BX Fax 020 7782 3300 Tel 020 7782 3000 Email editor@thes.co.uk Website www.thesis.co.uk There was no joy in this week's budget for higher education....
In his budget, the chancellor showed enthusiasm for technology clusters in which regional capacity in leading-edge high-tech industries can flourish. A pity then that a chance to encourage such a...
Can Australia pick the best of the US university funding system and avoid the worst? asks Simon Marginson In Australia, debate over the deregulation of undergraduate tuition fees has continued for a...
Last week in The THES... Bernice Andrews argued that there is little evidence that patients are being prompted by therapists to invent memories * There is ample evidence that a veritable epidemic of...
Is scientific integrity being compromised by political and commercial pressures? asks Tom Wakeford For the scientific academy the Royal Society, and a host of previously respected UK scientific...