Oxford's fee legacy
Oxford clearly needs a Royal Commission, but attacking the college system is barking up the wrong tree. A worse problem in Oxford, one not shared with Cambridge, is the dismal state of the non-...
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Money-spinning courses for foreigners - you're speaking our language
Nick Woods reports on the English language courses that are a boon for universities' coffers and culture "Everyone speaks English anyway." That is the typical argument British people use to avoid...
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Money-spinning courses for foreigners - you're speaking our language
Nick Woods reports on the English language courses that are a boon for universities' coffers and culture "Everyone speaks English anyway." That is the typical argument British people use to avoid...
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Second tongue causes strife
Students in East Timor are finding their country's second official language tough to learn because there are so few opportunities to practice. After voting for independence from Indonesia in...
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Easy links to significant others
Shamanism
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Statistical myths give lie to white-paper policy
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
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Commission publishes action plan for achieving three per cent objective
Brussels, 30 Apr 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented on 29 April a new action plan containing a number of measures aimed at helping the EU to meet the three per cent target by...
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Wild vistas that come in bulk
Wilderness
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From first bud, drug ban was a real hash
International treaties to curb cannabis trade and use have been built on the foundations of shaky science and imperial politics, writes James Mills. As British doctors prepare to prescribe a new...
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EU Fulbright plan nets ?125m
The European Commission has decided to invest €200 million (?125 million) more in a European equivalent of the Fulbright programme. Erasmus World will open universities in the European Union to...
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Today's news
Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of ?18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
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Why I agreed to become chairman of Leeds United
"Now that you are spending more time in Leeds you need to get some exercise." "Fine, I'll spend more time at the football club." Such Sunday morning banter with my wife eventually led me to become...
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Spin out company founder says thank you to EU and ESA
Brussels, 18 July 2002 At the launch of a new space incubator network, ESINET, in Brussels on 17 July, Tony Anson from Brunel University in the UK outlined how funding from the EU, the European space...
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Applications are now open for IFS grants
Brussels, 18 July 2002 The Swedish-based International Foundation for Science (IFS) has issued a call for research grant applications from young scientists in developing countries. Access to research...
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Silence of illiteracy
Hassan Bouzidi's assessment of education in Morocco is gloomy (World View, THES, May 5). He says that more than half the population and 90 per cent of rural women are illiterate. But he does not...