Fears about the potential for libel on the Internet have resurfaced with the launch of a major lawsuit in the United States. The owner of a US electronic bulletin board, Prodigy Services, is being...
Huw Richards finds that historians are now beginning to take a serious interest in the much trivialised subject of the Royal family. There is not a telephoto lens among the lot of them, and, while...
Nigerian education minister Iyorchia Ayie has stopped salary payments to every university lecturer in the country. The minister ordered vice chancellors at 31 universities to implement his directive...
Denmark should focus support for academic and public research more selectively on areas where it can be a world leader, according to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development....
Aston University scientists have begun the hunt for the elusive gene which causes Tourette Syndrome, a rare neuropsychiatric disease characterised by recurrent muscle tics and involuntary...
There are hopes of major improvements in the care of angina patients following the successful investigation of a newly developed nitrate medicine by researchers at King's College School of Medicine...
Selling higher education to foreigners is now worth more than $1.5 billion (Pounds 750 million) a year to Australia and the federal government expects earnings to rise sharply following its latest...
Spaniards in higher education are considerably worse off than their European Union counterparts according to a report by the educational assessment body of the European Union, the Industrial Research...
Intrepid scientists have just completed a breathtaking voyage of discovery taking them to the top of the world to study, among other things, the common cough. The British Mount Everest Medical...
A research centre has been set up at the University of Teesside to develop new ways of helping people with learning difficulties by using sophisticated computer technology. Researchers at the special...
The development of a burgeoning textile industry in Bangladesh is responsible for significant improvements in the status and health of many women, researchers at Southampton University have...
(Photograph) - Public opinion seems to favour students from well-off families paying some of their tuition costs. Details of this week's MORI poll appear below, with a survey of readers' views and a...
(Photograph) - When MORI polled nearly 2,000 people for The THES in September 1993, 46 per cent favoured teaching costs being paid by the state and not repaid by students. This is about the same as...
(Photograph) - British academics do not believe that degree standards are being maintained, a survey of THES readers has shown. The self-selecting group of 1,125 people who returned last year's...
Heriot-Watt University has marked the 25th anniversary of its pioneering language courses with the creation of a new chair in interpreting and translating. Ian Mason, holder of the chair and head of...