A business school in France's alpine city of Grenoble has received hundreds of enquiries about a masters course in electronic business that begins in the 1999-2000 academic year. The one-year course...
Last week in The THES ... George Walden suggested that tuition fees should rise above Pounds 1,000 so academics can be paid more Max Roberts Department of psychology University of Essex Students...
The 16 large research-intensive universities that form Universitas 21 are planning to expand membership. At its annual meeting in Montreal, U21 organisers said they would like to add seven members,...
The 16 members of Universitas 21 have decided to exploit their collective intellectual property assets on the world market by incorporating their association. The two-year-old global network of...
The Thai government is hiring 20,000 jobless graduates and diploma holders to teach communities about a new national constitution designed to combat political corruption. The 687 million baht (Pounds...
Torn between his ethnic and academic identities, Dejan Djokic finds the latter, the identity of an individual, must prevail Academics, like everyone else, are affected by wars. The wars in the former...
Next week, Europe's space ministers will meet in Brussels to decide on the next generation of projects for the European Space Agency. They will seek to build on a remarkable record of success and...
Kate Purcell's research uncovered the appalling level of discrimination practised against older candidates ("Bright young things only need apply", THES, April 9). Universities are one of the biggest...
The ageism that leads UK employers to shun mature students ("Unwanted oldies", THES, April 9) is deplorable. It is bad for, and reflects badly on, employers. It deprives them of the chance to plumb...
Henry Ellington's heptalogue of "golden rules" ("Teaching with confidence", THES, April 30) made my heart sink and convinced me that initiatives such as his are part of the problem, not of its...
Your article "Younger students opt to go part time" (THES, April 30) reflects what we are finding. Of inquiries for entry to our part-time LLB for 1998-99, 24 per cent were from under 25s and, of...
As ex-members of the School of English Language Education at Thames Valley University, we are appalled at its possible demise. Its research record in the area of applied linguistics is second to none...
Daniel Dennett's faith in the power of evolution goes too far ("Mind over matter", THES, April 30). In an article on "making mistakes" in How Things Are, he states his view even more explicitly: "...
I'm puzzled by one feature of your league tables (THES, April 23). You have Cambridge and Oxford well down on the list on expenditure on facilities, but seem not to have noticed that they are...
The Association of University Teachers' complaint about payment for external examiners serves no one if, as appears from your report, it presents a disingenuous case bordering on dishonesty ("...