Language law gets stay of execution
Romania's ethnic minorities have won a one-year concession against the new education law which threatened to remove their right to take university entrance examinations in their own languages. In the...
Romania's ethnic minorities have won a one-year concession against the new education law which threatened to remove their right to take university entrance examinations in their own languages. In the...
British cultural studies, a new trend in the teaching of English in Russian universities, is breathing life back into a language strangled under Soviet isolationism. In the years since the collapse...
Seven French government ministers attended the launch of a commission on education which appears set to bury President Chirac's pre-election promise of a referendum on education. In a lengthy...
Your report by Olga Wojtas (THES, September 15) on scientific fraud is illustrated with a photograph of the late Sir Cyril Burt, who is said to have "fabricated much of his data on twins". It is true...
John Barrow ("Beauty is in the eye of the hunter", THES, September 15) suggests the arid, bare savannah grasslands determine our landscape preferences. What of our love of water? The seaside, the...
Your editorial ("The future of the BA", THES, September 15) rightly identifies the potential for change among the institutions involved in promoting public understanding of science, including the...
In a second attempt to justify the Serb-sponsored genocide against the people of Bosnia, Will Podmore (THES, September 8) has misquoted me. In order to make his claim that the aggression in the...
Training and Enterprise Councils have trumpeted the Government's latest performance figures as evidence of "excellent performance and value for money". Such self-congratulation is understandable....
The party conference season kicked off this week with the Liberal Democrats meeting in Glasgow. For once higher education was put up for serious consultation - both the issue of standards, on which...
The years following the 1988 Education Reform Act have been among the most eventful in the recent history of the universities. The changes have been dramatic. Where have they left the Committee of...
Statistics released by Israel's ministry of education have confirmed the continuation of a recent trend that has seen females comprising an ever-increasing percentage of the university population....
Three Algerian academics have been arrested in Lyons, France, in a police swoop on networks allegedly supporting Algeria's banned extremist group, the GIA (Armed Islamic Group). The three have been...
The University of Zimbabwe functions at a comfortable pace, a sign of a country where taking one's time is of the essence. Despite recent disputes between some students and the administration over...
"Le oui va gagner" say the stickers beginning to proliferate on Montreal lamp-posts as the province of Quebec contemplates yet another sovereignty referendum this autumn. Jean-Claude Robert rather...
The British government is investing in Uganda's education with a new Pounds 4.5 million project for in-service secondary teacher education. The five-year programme will entail building 39 secondary...