Oxford to groom future teachers
More than half of Oxford University's postgraduates are likely to pursue an academic career, and plans are afoot to prepare the next generation more effectively than ever for such a future. In...
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Forgo anonymity, scientists told
Academics experimenting on animals were urged this week to publish data openly - in effect waiving their anonymity. In particular, journals that run articles on such research should print data about...
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Research networks are key to cash quest
While Wales considers a new fees structure, demoralised staff and insufficient income are stalling progress at the country's universities, reports Tony Tysome Researchers in Wales must join forces...
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Mixed response to new culture of partnerships and Joint staffing
While Wales considers a new fees structure, demoralised staff and insufficient income are stalling progress at the country's universities, reports Tony Tysome Einir Young , deputy director of Bangor...
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Lack of collaboration blamed for poor spin-off record
Welsh universities are losing out in the technology transfer market because they are not working with each other and with industry to patent inventions jointly, researchers at Swansea University have...
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Academic exodus threatens Wales
While Wales considers a new fees structure, demoralised staff and insufficient income are stalling progress at the country's universities, reports Tony Tysome More than two in every five Welsh...
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Rees plan to top slice fees
While Wales considers a new fees structure, demoralised staff and insufficient income are stalling progress at the country's universities, reports Tony Tysome A "distinctively Welsh" system of top-up...
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30% urge scrapping of federal structure
While Wales considers a new fees structure, demoralised staff and insufficient income are stalling progress at the country's universities, reports Tony Tysome Welsh academics are divided over whether...
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League tables 2005: Cambridge buoyant as Scots show their mettle
There are some unexpected changes in this year's league tables, notably in teaching quality and graduate jobs, says John O'Leary. Still, the old guard remains dominant on several measures as students...
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Big gap between expectation and reality
The gulf between what teenagers expect to earn once they have a degree and what graduates are paid is revealed by new figures produced for The Times Higher . A league table of what graduates earned...
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London
Palestinian academics this week demanded the dismissal of Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, for signing a statement with an Israeli university president condemning the...
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Nouakchott
Mauritanian security agents have detained students in the campus mosque at the University of Nouakchott. Sources say the students, believed to be involved in protests against Mauritania's links with...
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Strasbourg
The European Court of Human Rights is considering an appeal by Leyla Sahin, a former Istanbul medical student, against a decision that upheld Turkey's ban on headscarves on campuses. Ms Sahin is...
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Belgrade
A new student group at Belgrade University angered non-governmental organisations and political parties in Serbia with a revisionist round table on "The truth about Srebrenica" - the 1995 massacre of...
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Beijing
Tsinghua University has signed a deal with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Oxford Brookes University to offer a foundation programme in accountancy. Students on the programme...