Payback time?
In your report ("UK graduates earn highest rate of return", THES , August 30), London School of Economics' Nick Barr says that "graduates earn an extra £400,000 over a lifetime and therefore it is...
In your report ("UK graduates earn highest rate of return", THES , August 30), London School of Economics' Nick Barr says that "graduates earn an extra £400,000 over a lifetime and therefore it is...
ARTS AND DESIGN- Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural ArtBy Peggy Macnamara, associate professor, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, £13.00ISBN 9780226500973A...
Education Minister claims only 12 universities are needed to boost achievement, reports Geoff Maslen. Australia needs only 12 public comprehensive universities instead of the current 37, according to...
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector's development. The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings are a composite measure in which six...
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector’s development.
Australian higher education will receive an additional A$560 million (Pounds 229 million) in federal funding over the next five years, while the nation's working citizens have been promised tax cuts...
Nicholas Barr says that if higher education is funded from general taxation, "the taxes of a hospital porter would pay for the degree of the old Etonian" ("MPs maul ministers' blueprint", THES, July...
Oxford University has secured a landmark High Court ruling protecting its staff and contractors from intimidation by animal rights activists, writes Anna Fazackerley. An injunction granted on...
Paul Hannon Job advertised in The Times Higher , July 11 2003 Paul Hannon has become the first professor of incubation and enterprise at the University of Central England. He joined UCE from De...
ART AND DESIGNThe Cambridge Companion to GiottoEdited by Anne Derbes, professor of art at Hood College and Mark Sandona, professor of English, Hood CollegeCambridge University Press, £18.99. ISBN...
Pacemaker may avert epileptic seizures, say US researchers Scientists in America have developed a treatment for epilepsy which they say could help millions of people with the condition. Researchers...
Luther King archive retained by alma mater The archive of Martin Luther King will stay in his home city of Atlanta in the possession of his alma mater, Morehouse College, thanks to a last minute, $32...
The African Virtual University is to expand its operations and offer places to students in 22 of the continent's countries, as part of a four-year partnership with RMIT University in Melbourne....
The African Virtual University is to expand its operations and offer places to students in 22 of the continent's countries, as part of a four-year partnership with RMIT University in Melbourne....
Applications to Australian universities for 2005 have fallen sharply, but higher tuition fees due to be imposed at most institutions may not be to blame. Public universities in Western Australia have...