Castro relaxes grip on jobs
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
Students at Oldenburg University in northern Germany will be encouraged to blow the whistle on professors who are not fulfilling their teaching duties. This is one way in which university president...
The Soros Foundation has suspended aid programmes for education, scientific and medical research and cultural activities in Belarus. The decision is a reaction to changes in the tax laws which make...
The prospect of fee increases in Italy's 50 state universities has sparked new rumblings of student protest for the end of the summer. The Italian parliament passed legislation which eliminates the...
This year's pass rate in the French school-leaving baccalaureat examination reached a record 75 per cent. But the result has been greeted with some scepticism about standards and even rumours that...
At the end of the academic year in Israel's universities, league tables of the marks given by students to their lecturers are displayed in corridors and common rooms. Apart from their obvious role as...
Three women take up vice chancellor posts in September, bringing the total number of women v-cs in the UK to five. However, their personal styles and reputations are very different. Christine King is...
Elaine Williams reports on the slow progress of women in the male world of academic management. Working in universities has been good preparation for a gentleman's club". One of the three new women...
Stephen White looks at the widespread problem of alcohol abuse in Russia and the nation's efforts to sober up. It is ten years since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and launched perestroika. Less...
Gail Vines meets Alice Stewart, the pioneering epidemiologist and heroine of the anti-nuclear movement. In the mid-1950s, the pioneering epidemiologist Alice Stewart showed that the practice of X-...
More emphasis on the experience and resources of the private education sector and radical changes in entrance examinations to universities are key parts of the cure prescribed by the Organisation of...
Angela Crum-Ewing is the retiring deputy registrar at Reading University. She entered university administration at the age of 39 after taking time out to care for a family of four children. When her...
A cash crisis is threatening the collegiate system. Ilsa Godlovitch reports. Financial pressures may in 20 years' time force a change on the whole ethos of Oxford University life. There may be little...
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. This week The THES summer series on research begins. As mainstream teaching ends for the summer vacation in much of higher education, academic staff and...
Four-year degree courses have been developed by many university science and engineering departments for a variety of reasons. These include: the need for more content , particularly complementary...