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Christopher Ball writes an open letter to the vice chancellor of Oxford University calling for a focus on research. Dear vice chancellor,It is now a month since the final date for comments on the 45...
Christopher Ball writes an open letter to the vice chancellor of Oxford University calling for a focus on research. Dear vice chancellor,It is now a month since the final date for comments on the 45...
While I sympathise with many of Josef Jarab's comments on higher education in the Czech Republic (World View, THES, February 10) I find his evasion of any serious discussion about the role of higher...
The vital words have been uttered: send for Sir Ron. At long last the Government has noticed, what people all around have been saying for years, that there is a consensus that "the qualifications...
Eleven professors at Rome's Sapienza University medical school are officially under investigation for allegedly "fixing" competitive exams for medical chairs. According to the Rome judge who is...
The projected site of the world's largest optical telescope has become the focus of an international dispute about diplomatic immunity. Ricardo Giacconi, director of the European Southern Observatory...
At the eleventh hour the universities have taken a stand. And they have taken it, as they should, on the grounds of quality control and autonomy. It has taken a long time. Views expressed with too...
As France's presidential election draws near, the biggest public research institution, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique has won the promise of an 11th-hour hand-out, while, for the...
South African technikons emerged the biggest winners in education in this year's budget, which increased the total education allocation by just over 10 per cent to R32.2 million (Pounds 5.65million...
The controversial black academic, Leonard Jeffries, lost his first court case last week when a panel of appeals judges ruled that he was lawfully demoted by City College of New York for making...
Australian women are making spectacular advances in higher education and should no longer be considered disadvantaged, according to researchers at Monash University. In fact, they say, it is...
Pressure on American universities and colleges to give women students the same athletic opportunities as men increased last month when a federal judge ruled that the Ivy League Brown University had...
The third set of education indicators to be published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has grown yet again to meet what it calls "the increasing desire among OECD...
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. In the university business...
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Ancient tape-recorders that...
If shop assistants suddenly start to ask you why you are buying a particular product, how it defines your identity and what life would be like without it - beware: they may be sociologists. For ten...