Taking a lead in lecturer training
In your report of the Confederation of British Industry conference on National Vocational Qualifications for teachers and lecturers (THES, May 26) you quote Dominic Cadbury's statement to the effect...
In your report of the Confederation of British Industry conference on National Vocational Qualifications for teachers and lecturers (THES, May 26) you quote Dominic Cadbury's statement to the effect...
John Bird speculates on the transfer fees frenzy. Eric Cantona transferred from Manchester United to Chelsea for Pounds 5 million. His goals (14) and the points they earned (23) are debited to United...
I am shocked by your description of students who prefer a decent grant to poverty as "militant" (THES, June 2). After the National Union of Students' executive steered through a ridiculous motion...
The Venetian island of San Servolo, halfway between Venice and the Lido, is to become an international campus for up to nine European and American universities. The 12-acre island boasts a 15th-...
Erasmus students on their year abroad on the island of Reunion are tanned and happy. This French Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean is what one student describes as an "unknown tropical paradise...
The president of Germany's Rectors' Conference, Hans-Uwe Erichsen, has blamed state and federal governments for the country's loss of its international lead in qualifications and research. Addressing...
Ex-research minister Paul Kruger has called on the German federal government to provide special funds in order to boost the expansion of higher education and industrial research in eastern Germany,...
You are right to draw attention to the length of the further education dispute, and my wish to reach a satisfactory national agreement for further education lecturing staff. (THES, May 26). A...
Universities may be forgiven for feeling anxious about what their staff and students may be saying on the Internet. The first they may hear if someone goes off the rails is the thud of a writ,...
The World Bank's report, Priorities and Strategies for Education, published this week, repeats a theme that has become increasingly familiar from the Bank: that opportunities in higher education are...
United States Customs continues to investigate the case of Anthony Melnikas, the Ohio State University art history professor who gave a book dealer two valuable pages of Latin text found to have been...
Research into intelligence activities has begun to take off in France, where it has been a neglected area for academic study, compared to the United Kingdom or the United States. Admiral Pierre...
A highly-respected political and social commentator has been demoted and had his salary cut over allegations that he plagiarised the work of several colleagues, despite a finding that the claims...
The first strike by New Zealand university academics has ended in stalemate and a warning from the university hit by the industrial action that any pay rises next year will have to be met from...
South Africa's education minister is to meet with student bodies next week to try to find ways of ending racism and violence - and promoting reform - at universities and technikons. The summit, which...