Two university lecturers have been accused of engaging in homosexual acts with Malaysia's now imprisoned former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. They are Hairany Modh Naffis, a political science...
French archaeologists called off a ten-day strike last week after the culture minister froze proposals to "privatise" compulsory excavations of particular sites before construction starts, writes...
THE question of how lifelong learning can be financed without increased government spending was raised by Lord Dearing in Melbourne last week. Speaking at the University of Melbourne, Lord Dearing...
Romania is investigating establishing a multilingual university in an effort to ward off a threat by the Hungarian minority party to withdraw from the ruling coalition. A Hungarian university has...
The cultural centre at the University of Washington is a legacy of the heady days of the civil rights era, when student protesters occupied the president's offices and demanded the campus open its...
A review group analysing the Computers in Teaching Initiative has reported a mixed message. While the initiative is seen to be growing in importance as institutions develop more formal learning and...
They use them in Russian oilfields. They use them on a United States Navy cruiser. Now 28,000 staff and students are using them at Thames Valley University. If Slough and Ealing were surrounded by...
The University of Edinburgh has teamed up with the Bank of Scotland to issue all 22,000 students with smartcards. Students can transfer up to Pounds 100 to the card from their bank accounts. The...
Researchers need to find out now whether they will breach data privacy laws says Andrew Charlesworth By tomorrow European Union member states should have implemented the 1995 EU Data Protection...
For centuries universities have provided a socially useful means of laundering grubby money. Suppression of the monasteries, piracy, slavery, American robber barons' ruthless exploitation: all...
More academics should test whether New Labour can countenance argued opposition, says Angela McRobbie This week saw two seemingly conflicting events. First, the government permitted the arrest of...
It is horrifying that the kind of blinkered prejudice against individuals with specific learning disabilities expressed by sociologist Frank Furedi ("Examiners buckle under an avalanche of excuses",...
I am amazed at Frank Furedi's allegation that a learning support tutor in a university with a "respectable" sociology department can intervene in the awarding of examination marks. This practice is...
I was entertained to see my old comrade Frank Furedi banging on about cheats and cheating. Despite my amusement I do share his dismay at the proliferation of ill-defined disabilities among students...
By focusing on the assessment, Frank Furedi fails to consider the barriers to learning encountered by disabled students. Those prepared to identify themselves as disabled will encounter...