Island sun, sea, sand and . . . studying
Erasmus students on their year abroad on the island of Reunion are tanned and happy. This French Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean is what one student describes as an "unknown tropical paradise...
Erasmus students on their year abroad on the island of Reunion are tanned and happy. This French Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean is what one student describes as an "unknown tropical paradise...
The president of Germany's Rectors' Conference, Hans-Uwe Erichsen, has blamed state and federal governments for the country's loss of its international lead in qualifications and research. Addressing...
Ex-research minister Paul Kruger has called on the German federal government to provide special funds in order to boost the expansion of higher education and industrial research in eastern Germany,...
You are right to draw attention to the length of the further education dispute, and my wish to reach a satisfactory national agreement for further education lecturing staff. (THES, May 26). A...
Universities may be forgiven for feeling anxious about what their staff and students may be saying on the Internet. The first they may hear if someone goes off the rails is the thud of a writ,...
The World Bank's report, Priorities and Strategies for Education, published this week, repeats a theme that has become increasingly familiar from the Bank: that opportunities in higher education are...
United States Customs continues to investigate the case of Anthony Melnikas, the Ohio State University art history professor who gave a book dealer two valuable pages of Latin text found to have been...
Research into intelligence activities has begun to take off in France, where it has been a neglected area for academic study, compared to the United Kingdom or the United States. Admiral Pierre...
A highly-respected political and social commentator has been demoted and had his salary cut over allegations that he plagiarised the work of several colleagues, despite a finding that the claims...
The first strike by New Zealand university academics has ended in stalemate and a warning from the university hit by the industrial action that any pay rises next year will have to be met from...
South Africa's education minister is to meet with student bodies next week to try to find ways of ending racism and violence - and promoting reform - at universities and technikons. The summit, which...
The Malaysian education ministry has awarded contracts for the building of two polytechnics, each to provide places for 3,500 students on vocational courses. Shah Alam Polytechnic will be built at a...
Almost half of Australia's 45,000 foreign students hope to remain in the country as immigrants after completing their courses, according to a survey by a team of five academics. The team surveyed...
A -month investigation into the effectiveness of videotaping children's evidence has found that the tapes are succeeding in reducing the stress faced by children in trials, but do not appear to be...
Poverty is a major problem in rural Wales, according to Mark Goodwin of Aberystwyth University's Institute of Earth Studies. He has just completed a survey of 1,000 households, and has found that up...