Nigerian strikers' salaries stopped
Nigerian education minister Iyorchia Ayie has stopped salary payments to every university lecturer in the country. The minister ordered vice chancellors at 31 universities to implement his directive...
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Danes set sights on market
Denmark should focus support for academic and public research more selectively on areas where it can be a world leader, according to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development....
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Hunt for defective gene gets under way
Aston University scientists have begun the hunt for the elusive gene which causes Tourette Syndrome, a rare neuropsychiatric disease characterised by recurrent muscle tics and involuntary...
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How nitrate could bring an end to heartache
There are hopes of major improvements in the care of angina patients following the successful investigation of a newly developed nitrate medicine by researchers at King's College School of Medicine...
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Australians see gold on road to Bangkok
Selling higher education to foreigners is now worth more than $1.5 billion (Pounds 750 million) a year to Australia and the federal government expects earnings to rise sharply following its latest...
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Spaniards graduate to dole queues
Spaniards in higher education are considerably worse off than their European Union counterparts according to a report by the educational assessment body of the European Union, the Industrial Research...
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Peak practice for scientists
Intrepid scientists have just completed a breathtaking voyage of discovery taking them to the top of the world to study, among other things, the common cough. The British Mount Everest Medical...
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Computers solve learning problems
A research centre has been set up at the University of Teesside to develop new ways of helping people with learning difficulties by using sophisticated computer technology. Researchers at the special...
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Women escape to work
The development of a burgeoning textile industry in Bangladesh is responsible for significant improvements in the status and health of many women, researchers at Southampton University have...
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Price worth paying for debt-free graduates
(Photograph) - Public opinion seems to favour students from well-off families paying some of their tuition costs. Details of this week's MORI poll appear below, with a survey of readers' views and a...
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Margin notes on the case for personal burden
(Photograph) - When MORI polled nearly 2,000 people for The THES in September 1993, 46 per cent favoured teaching costs being paid by the state and not repaid by students. This is about the same as...
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Devaluation of the British degree
(Photograph) - British academics do not believe that degree standards are being maintained, a survey of THES readers has shown. The self-selecting group of 1,125 people who returned last year's...
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Heriot-Watt sets up new language chair
Heriot-Watt University has marked the 25th anniversary of its pioneering language courses with the creation of a new chair in interpreting and translating. Ian Mason, holder of the chair and head of...
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Women medics face hard climb
Women aiming for a medical career are still meeting more barriers than their male peers, a nationwide survey has found. Data compiled in a study of medical students who qualified in 1986 has shown...
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Whispering silks
(Photograph) - Lecturers at Langside College, Glasgow, have been using national dress to help teach English to women at the Meridian Black and Ethnic Minority Women's Information and Resource Centre...