Quebec universities have lost 10 per cent of their professors, according to a recent survey by a provincial teachers association. According to the Federation Quebcoise des Professeures et Professeurs...
ALARMING statistics that show an increased drop-out rate from university courses have coincided with the revelation from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service that there has been a 6 per...
HIGHER and further education's wish for 1998 must be that the planning blight of 1997 will end. 1997 was a year of waiting - for the election, for reports, for white papers and for money. It was also...
Twelve months learning the language and culture of another country sets students up for life - and work, says Pieta Monks MY "Russian" year abroad in the early 1970s was interesting: five months of...
Germans are protesting because universities have become dumping grounds for a whole generation, argues Jennie Brookman THE MOST remarkable thing about the student strikes and demonstrations sweeping...
CHRIS WILLIAMS, the cancer network coordinator, says: "The network is aimed at everyone. The Cochrane network is one way they will be able to get at much of the information available" (Medical...
AS a member of convocation and a graduate of University College, London, I used to use the libraries of the University of London and University College without payment. I was a student for 11 years,...
THE alarm you report from Peterhouse about a ghost is surely misplaced (THES, December 19). The college is rather to be congratulated on the spirit's appearance. When an undergraduate there in the...
In the United States tuition charges vary dramatically between and within universities. This convinces me that our own government will be well-advised to maintain strong control over tuition-fee...
ALL MANY potential students wanted for Christmas was a cheque for Pounds 3,000 worth of tuition fees if they gain a place at university next year. Many would-be students will be unable to realise...
If I have inadvertently patronised Shabbir Akhtar in my book (Muslims and Christians Face to Face, THES, December 12), - assuming it is possible to patronise someone one considers one's intellectual...
WHILE appreciating many of the remarks made by Linda Woodhead in reviewing my Studies in Modern Jewish and Hindu Thought (THES, December 12), much of what she says fails to reach its target since I...
Monday Fax back to a student in United States to say he is welcome to join the MSc food safety course next year. I hope he gets his fellowship to pay the fees. Sort out the supervisory needs of our...
THE OUTCOME of the debate about the relevance of private finance initiatives in universities will determine our future system. The Treasury is committed to PFI projects because it is convinced that...
King's College, London Sarah Cowley, senior lecturer, has been appointed to the newly established chair of nursing practice and evaluation; David Ganz, formerly at the University of North Carolina,...