Monash University in Melbourne is believed to be the first university to begin developing offshore education programmes that will be offered across the entire region of southern Africa. University...
Indonesian students have won the tacit backing of university authorities for their anti-government protests. The institutions, once a keystone of the country's stultifying education system, have...
Italian state universities are radically redesigning degree courses to harmonise with the rest of Europe and strengthen the drive to greater university autonomy. A three-year "foundation" degree...
Israeli students demanding that the government halve tuition fees are claiming support from government ministers, academics, doctors and the public. The students have been on strike for five weeks...
Turkish academics are pushing to overturn a rule introduced last month banning them from universities if they "attack" the state. An assistant at Sanurfa University in southern Turkey has already...
Political extremists are taking advantage of Russia's economic crisis to attract more students in the run-up to next year's parliamentary elections. Communists, nationalists and rabble-rousers from...
With the Competitiveness white paper expected this month, Lord Sainsbury says we must exploit our science The economy of tomorrow will be the knowledge economy - driven by brainpower and creativity....
Teaching and research are likely to come increasingly into conflict in British universities, at least in those with a heavy concentration of research. Students and their parents are now paying...
"Ancient English selfhood" and "perpetual rootedness" - are these serious criteria for 20th-century poetry? Valentine Cunningham's advocacy of Ted Hughes over Sylvia Plath (THES, November ) resorts...
Digital art is widespread in a variety of art and design disciplines, particularly in the United Kingdom's university sector - witness the growing number of courses that now include digital imaging...
In claiming that students do not use computers for course-related material John Davies (THES, November ) takes an exceedingly narrow view. Most university libraries offer on CD-rom or via the web the...
Dross, second-rate, gobbledegook, hot, hot, hot! New assessment categories, perhaps, for educational research (THES, November )? In Phil Baty's feature one of my recent papers was described as "small...
Where is the recognition that in terms of school improvement, cognitive acceleration in science education, mathematical education, formative assessment, school action research, and gender awareness,...
Your coverage of the debate surrounding educational research draws heavily on James Tooley's research, yet his work contains a number of contradictions. For example, his negative reference to one of...
I am glad that some of your respondents (THES, letters, November ) realised that I may not have been entirely serious in suggesting that genetic engineering could be used to abolish religious belief...