Malaria vaccine close
AN EFFECTIVE vaccine against malaria could soon be available thanks to research work at Imperial College, London, aimed at understanding the role of a malarial protein. Called thrombospondin-related...
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More say, less evasion
DEMOCRACY reduces tax cheating, according to research for the Economic and Social Research Council. Allowing citizens a greater role in politics, such as through referenda, will reduce the number of...
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Germans agree on reform basics
Germany's ruling conservatives and the Social Democratic opposition have finally agreed on higher education reforms to tighten university spending, give universities greater autonomy and make them...
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Urals reporters get BBC tips
Russian radio and television reporters are going back to college in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg to learn the BBC art of journalism. Broadcasting professionals from the central Urals, a vast area...
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Private colleges take the law into their own hands
Young Russians increasingly see a law degree as the fastest track to prosperity in a market-oriented society, and higher education institutions, both state and private, have been swift to meet the...
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Vouchers enrage students
New Zealand students have clashed with police in protests over proposed changes to tertiary education which could see the introduction of a voucher system. A leaked ministry of education draft...
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Anzacs fight on fees front
UNIVERSITY students in Australia and New Zealand have launched a joint campaign to protest at the higher education policies of their respective governments. The "Trans-Tasman week of action" involved...
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Universities 'over-rated'
Australia's students rate technical and further education (TAFE) colleges higher than universities, according to new research, writes Geoff Maslen. A study by University of Melbourne researchers...
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Tax relief for study balances budget
COLLEGE students and their parents will enjoy an estimated $40 billion worth of tax credits towards tuition in the next five years as part of an historic agreement to balance the United States...
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South Africa boosts its science
Africa. South African industries and the government could soon be pumping half a billion rand (Pounds 66,500,000) a year into science and technology projects aimed at rapidly expanding the country's...
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Excellence is an island
As Britain debates the detail of the Dearing report, India, 50 years after independence, faces much the same issues, but on a very different scale Nehru's vision of universities emphasised a liberal...
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Truth about Jinnah
KATHERINE Frank's review of my book Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, (THES, August 15) is unfair and inaccurate. For example, she quotes me as condemning Ayesha Jalal's...
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Truth about Jinnah
THE reader of Professor Ahmed's biography will assume that he is functioning as a biographer as well as an anthropologist in it, and that when he invokes other's views, without contesting or refuting...
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Blunkett's funding muddle
Should poorer students shoulder bigger debts, asks Ben Jackson. As THIS YEAR's A-level results precipitate a frenzied scramble for university places before the introduction of tuition fees, it is...
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Fees for all, fair for all
WHAT many people have missed in the tuition fees debate is the massive cultural shift in the expectations of people from a working-class background. When I left school at 16 university was far...