Do the plugged-in opt out?
Hundreds of students at Loughborough University are to be the focus of research exploring "virtual living and learning" in higher education. Project leader Charles Crook said the work would exploit...
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Union claims institute
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers wants lecturers to set the standards for and run the higher education teaching accreditation scheme recommended in the Dearing report. The AUT's submission to...
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Sykes calls for Labour fee rethink
A DETAILED, independent financial analysis of the Government's proposals for student funding is urgently needed, according to Sir Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of pharmaceutical giant...
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CVCP finds significant gaps in many Dearing proposals
KEY QUESTIONS about short-term cash shortages and university freedom are still awaiting answers post-Dearing, say higher education policy developers. A detailed analysis of Sir Ron Dearing's report...
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Newcomer's stocks rise in bull market
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The most popular of all degree subjects, business studies, has seen explosive...
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Courtly ways tempt suitors
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The TV programmes This Life, Kavanagh QC and the usual fare of cops and robbers...
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Global player fails to attract English audience
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects PORTUGUESE would appear to be one of the least popular subjects taught at British...
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Scholar seeks aid against death call
A TOP Egyptian scholar has appealed to academics around the world for help to fight what human rights groups claim is a death sentence on him and his wife. Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid made his plea on the...
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Black colleges aim for quality
BLACK institutions in South Africa are being urged to become "development universities", geared to meeting the needs of disadvantaged communities, rather than emulating their globalising white...
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Chic young turkshave a dream
EXPOUNDING articulately on how students should organise themselves, using her hands to emphasis points to her audience, 21-year-old Rikky Minyuku looks nothing like the popular image of a South...
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English ditched in war on colonial culture
"No English, please, we are Bengalis." That is the new dictum at Calcutta's Rabindra Bharati University, named after India's national poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, writes Hasan Suroor...
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China invests in science
Scientists in China have been promised better conditions for research under a government plan to upgrade science facilities. The State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC) says the plan, which...
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Rushdie ban opposer quits
A leading Indian historian who was condemned by Muslim fanatics for opposing the ban on Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses has resigned as pro vice chancellor of Delhi's Jamia Millia...
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Students unveil neighbourly plan
The first westerners to visitAlbania soon after the fall of communism were pleasantly surprised: virtually everybody spoke some foreign language and even pupils in primary schools could recite some...
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Asbestos alert fails to disturb ministerial calm
Asbestos watchdogs at Jussieu university campus in Paris have protested against the involvement of the education minister in the biggest decontamination programme in Europe. The university's anti-...