Free speech guarantees at United States universities and colleges are coming into conflict with demands that students who misuse the Internet be disciplined. The controversy flared with a decision by...
The United States education department, in a move that threatens to fire up the long-running controversy over sexism in sports, is to require colleges and universities to account publicly for what...
For a scholar contracted to write two books on The Three Stooges, the epitome of slapstick comedy, Jon Solomon has a surprisingly pessimistic view of cultural life in the United States, writes Tim...
A long-standing feud between two research institutes in St Petersburg has resulted in bloodshed. Vasilii Kyucherev, a senior researcher at the Institute of the Human Brain has sustained severe...
Corporations and multinationals can apply for licenses to set up private universities in Malaysia early in 1996, once legislation has been passed. Applications will be considered immediately after...
The Sri Lankan government is to establish three new universities to increase the student intake to 15,000 per year. They will be at Anuradhapura, Ampara and Ratnapura. New faculties are also to open...
It is fascinating to observe the innocent stance of the Colleges Employers Forum with regard to the concerns of Sir William Stubbs over the "democratic deficit" in governing bodies (THES, December 1...
Books are too old-fashioned for today's students so let's give them computers instead, argues Vincent Mitchell. How many times do you hear academics complaining about the difficulty of persuading...
University rectors in Denmark are concerned that university research will suffer under the widely different plans and ideas of the ministry of education and the ministry of research, both of which...
A scheme to assess the quality of university teaching and research has been approved by the Spanish government. Although participation is officially voluntary the findings will influence the amount...
I must ask you to bring to the attention of your readers a factual inaccuracy in Huw Richards's report "Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch" (THES, December 15). Mr Richards stated that Dr Ashworth...
Roy Kingham and Richard Andrews (THES, December 1) "doth protest too much" about my dismissal of a professorship being created in a further education college (my letter, November 24). In allocations...
Don Foster MP, Liberal Democrat education spokesman, wrote to university vice chancellors and principals on October 30 enclosing a survey based on research he had conducted over the summer on levels...
The Nolan inquiry assumes that standards in public life need to be different and implicitly higher than in private life, or at the very least the public nature of the activity requires conduct to be...
When I talked to your reporter about the current Alfred/Asser dispute (THES, December 8), I asked that I be not quoted. I deplore the fact that I was in fact quoted, not once but twice. The effect is...