A Nasa-trained chief executive, £13 million of backing and degrees from first-world educators - the future looks bright for the AVU. Kihumba Kamotho reports The African Virtual University has been...
Whatever technology's benefits for some of us, it has not changed the lives of most. But education is key to the places politicians and economists cannot reach, says Brenda Gourley Higher education...
Can distance learning help get South African higher education back on its feet, asks Richard Mawditt For nearly a decade following the African National Congress initiative, which set the parameters...
Clare Chapman reports on a user-friendly system being pioneered in Germany that puts lectures on the net A simplified system that enables students to access university lectures through the internet...
...not quite yet. Despite the government heralding a virtual learning revolution, Caroline Ingram says the use of IT in education is still in its infancy How will students learn in the future? If we...
Nigerians want to quench their thirst for study and distance education may do just that. Tunde Fatunde reports Nigeria's first attempt at establishing an open university - in 1983 during the second...
Nerves have been tested in Canadian distance learning, says Philip Fine Private-sector instability and government priorities have put a dent in some Canadian e-learning plans this year but the sector...
Informal chatrooms are aiding professional development in nursing. Peter Murray reports Late one evening, worried about what she had seen in the ward she was working on, a nurse sat at her computer...
"How has having a monarchy influenced your sense of national identity? What would your country be like without a monarchy?" The THES is collaborating with openDemocracy.net for a special report on...
The education that produced the overeducated, unhappy, lonely Bridget Jones generation of women must be rethought, James Tooley (above) tells Jennifer Wallace, and girls should be steered on an...
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
Oil is not only the lifeblood of the global economy, it is the source of international tensions, and these can only increase as finite reserves dwindle, writes Colin Campbell. The Middle East is...
The desire to understand the events of 9/11 has been a commercial boon for scholarly works from specialist presses, writes Karen Gold. In the summer of 2001, when New York's twin towers seemed to...