Visa restrictions dampen overseas enthusiasm
Five years of steady growth in the number of international students attending universities in the US has come to an abrupt halt, writes Jon Marcus in Boston. The number rose barely 1 per cent this...
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Spanish scientists draw up stem-cell manifesto
Spanish scientists have launched a manifesto in support of stem-cell research that they hope will win international support. The five-point Seville Declaration describes the discovery of stem cells...
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Broken pledge sparks anger
Students burnt tyres, paraded in bikinis and bedecked donkeys with placards outside five blocked university campuses across the country in protest against the Israeli government's failure to honour a...
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Students told to pay their way
Upfront tuition fees are essential if universities in sub-Saharan Africa are to improve academic standards, build postgraduate programmes and stem the loss of faculty, a World Bank conference in...
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Gats rulings fuel cultural clashes
Norway has backed down from demanding access to South Africa's higher education market under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, but denies it has withdrawn a request for access that has...
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Rise in twin start dates in bid to boost enrolment
Twice-yearly start dates for university courses are growing in popularity amid fears of falling applications and disappointing enrolments. Several universities have introduced courses that run twice...
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War forces prince to drop study
A prince enrolled at Oxford University has had to abandon his studies to fight for his country. Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, the prince of Bhutan, left St Peter's College this week. He had been at Oxford...
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Scientists await PM answer on GM
The prime minister was expected to respond this week to a letter from 114 UK scientists complaining about the increasing hostility to, and lack of government support for, work on genetic modification...
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Targets make our kids go from Bard to worse
Obession with assessment is crushing creativity in schoolchildren, laments Ros King Do your first-year students complain that the course you teach is too difficult? Have you noticed that they are...
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Harry Kroto
If the key to learning a language is to start very young, isn't there an obvious solution to the current languages crisis? Education, education, education! Tony Blair said it three times to underline...
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Two close to call
The ballot on whether lecturers' union Natfhe should continue pay talks or go straight to a vote on industrial action was running neck and neck as The THES went to press. Postal strikes meant that...
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Welcome to the club
Welcome Sir Graeme Davies, the former principal of the University of Glasgow, who last month became vice-chancellor of the University of London. Vice-chancellors gathered in the capital last week...
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Beer mats go supersonic
A flip-friendly beer mat has been developed by two university researchers. Ian Johnston, an aerodynamics expert at the Open University in Edinburgh, and Hazel Lucas, who is doing a masters degree at...
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A subject to make you salivate
Chemistry week kicks off tomorrow, on the theme of pleasure. The Royal Society of Chemistry - noted for its more outlandish attempts at generating publicity - has printed T-shirts emblazoned with "...
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Burning question of money
In the wake of Hallowe'en, Dundee University students have discovered the cost of burning a witch. The students, investigating the role of women in the 16th and 17th centuries, found a ledger...