The new treasure act came into force last week but archaeologists are already making great finds without digging Law changes under the 1996 Treasure Act, which came into effect last week, will have a...
JOB creation in universities and public research institutes is one of the main features of the French budget unveiled last week. The 1998 budget for higher education creates 3,000 academic posts in...
AUSTRALIA selects its students too young for university courses such as medicine, law, accounting, engineering and teaching, a federal government advisory body has warned. The Higher Education...
PERAK will be the first of Malaysia's northern states to establish bilateral education links with Indonesia's Northern Sumatera when Premier Yayasan Perak College sets up a branch in Medan this year...
Ethnic Albanian students in the Serbian province of Kosovo have announced a "takeover campaign" to coincide with the opening of the university term this week. They appealed to diplomats and...
David Jobbins reports from Palermo on higher education's preparations for the 1998 Unesco world conference. EUROPEAN rectors have lent their support to a declaration on the future of Europe's...
Higher education was this week's party pooper, with anti-fees demonstrators outside the Labour party's triumphant conference and a few dissenters inside brave enough to defy the party organisers. By...
In our fourth and final article on the big issues in the Dearing debate Sir Arnold Wolfendale makes a plea for research that pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. In Sir Ron Dearing's foreword to...
Universities and schools must not be taken down the same funding road as further education, say Patrick Ainley and Bill Bailey. Helena Kennedy, QC's report Learning Works, commissioned by the Further...
Nicholas Barr describes the lessons to be learnt from Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme As the funding of British higher education has got into a worse and worse mess through the 1990s...
Your report "Into the big time with big bucks" (THES, September 12) wrongly attributes to the Institute of Chartered Accountants a preference for non-accountancy graduates when it comes to training...
Monday Go to Manhattan. Not large famous Manhattan but small, unknown Manhattan in Kansas. It is the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the wind erosion research unit of the United States...
Ray Monk's review article about Thomas Nagel (THES, September 26) was a model of clarity, exhibiting the virtues of analytical philosophy which he rightly seeks to preserve: rigour, precision and...
Seven full-time academic staff in the University of London, all with unimpeachable scholarly credentials in the study of eastern Europe and Russia, are being threatened with "voluntary", ie...
In your coverage of our survey of the state of teaching equipment (THES, September 26), you gave the impression that the report was solely produced by PREST. In fact it was an equal collaborative...