Zimbabwe is to establish an "intellectual desk" at the Ministry of Higher and Further Education. It will target lecturers living abroad to help tackle the country's growing skills gap. The Government...
Local and Senate elections in the Czech Republic last weekend may end a political stalemate that has stalled anticipated university reforms. A general election last summer led to a hung Parliament,...
Schemes to raise the educational gains of Venezuela's poor have had a mixed response, says Jose Orozco. Venezuela has launched a scheme to encourage the country's poor, who have been shut out of...
The whitewashed classroom at the University of California, Berkeley, looks quite ordinary. But the questions from the students are extraordinarily emotional and plaintive. "You've had a child before...
The veil conceals but reveals, restricts but liberates. Meena Dhanda peers beneath the layers of meaning. A figure in black walks by with an armload of books. I turn around to say hello. It is my...
The best lectures I attended as a student were given by a spellbinding psychiatrist. He used no teaching aid except his hypnotic Viennese accent. Yet once heard, his spoken lessons were never...
The affable Lord Giddens showed a steely side when he put one foreign journalist in her place recently. During an evening event organised by the Foreign Press Association, just off London's Mall, he...
University journalism departments no doubt encourage students to write for the student newspaper or magazine. But perhaps it is best if they do not read what their charges write - if the contribution...
Birmingham University's senior management had egg on their faces this week, according to a website for black communities in the UK. Black Information Link claims that Jonathan Nicholls, the registrar...
Why is a dead professor who wrote about political philosophy blamed for the Iraq War? ask Catherine and Michael Zuckert. A spectre has been haunting the US. And, strange to say, that spectre is an...
As long as religious fundamentalist doctrines have influence, Muslim countries will lack a science base, warns Riaz Hassan. Universities in Muslim countries did poorly in the recent Times Higher...
State-led efforts to shape values often have perverse outcomes, says Maria Misra. Just look at the market-savvy Vietnamese For a few years, I have been one of the interviewers Oxford University sends...
If you're keen to get into research, now may be the time to make new friends. But don't ignore junior colleagues and, remember, collaboration works best if team members have different skills, says...
Name : Adam Bell Age : 22 Job : Scholarships administrator. Designing and implementing the Excellence Scholarships Scheme offering rewards for students in sport, performing arts, creative arts and...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I teach in a new university in an inner city. I have a number of Muslim students on my...