Students get a fair chance to make a mark
How can students judge the quality of their own work? The idea that students might assess themselves and their peers raises doubts about reliability, standards and equity. Yet, ironically, these...
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Derby: call for full inquiry
Lecturers' union Natfhe is calling for an independent investigation into The THES's revelations that Derby University admitted students to degree courses in Israel without agreed minimum entry...
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Huazhong
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which has helped introduce computerised manufacturing systems into hundreds of state-owned firms in China, has won the United States Society of...
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Sydney
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won an Aus$50,000 (Pounds 19,000) peace prize from the University of Sydney Peace Foundation. The prize is awarded annually to an organisation or individual who has made...
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Israel to ensure institutions meet its academic criteria
Israel's ministry of finance has dropped plans to force the 50 foreign university extensions operating in the country to comply with the academic criteria of Israel's own universities, writes Helen...
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Benefit changes could hit poorest students
Changes to benefit rules could cause hardship for Britain's most needy students, the National Union of Students has warned. While most full-time undergraduates are not eligible to claim income...
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Eyewitness
Australians vote next week in a referendum to decide whether the country will cut its 210-year-old ties to the British monarchy and become a republic. Although polls show a clear majority favours a...
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Florence
Forty-two foreign-language lettori at the University of Florence last week won a local labour court decision that annuls their present contracts and recognises their right to the same salaries as...
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Paris
Historian Helene Carrere d'Encausse has become the 31st permanent secretary of the Academie Francaise, the first woman to hold the post. One of only three women ever to belong to the body, which was...
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The making of a president
As Indonesia elects a new leader, Bill Watson looks at the mechanics of power broking in a troubled nation As events unfolded in the week of the presidential election in Indonesia, the twists and...
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American takeover leads to punch-up
BARCELONA. Friction between the owners of a Spanish private university over its sale to a United States-based international education provider has degenerated into violence on campus and ensuing...
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Outlook bleak for Sub-Sahara study
NAIROBI. The quality of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa will deteriorate as long as universities remain caught in the web of soaring student numbers, academic repression and savage budget cuts...
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Traffic death sparks student riots
Kenyatta University has closed following student riots that led to the death of a police officer and scores of injured students and police, writes Wachira Kigotho. The students also set ten vehicles...
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Albright calms fear
BOSTON. United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright has given an unqualified endorsement to international education exchanges, which university officials worry may be threatened by the merger...
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Ivory tower
(Photograph) - Oscar Peterson, the legendary Montreal-born jazz pianist who has struggled with arthritis and a stroke that all but stilled his left hand, listens to a performance of his music to...