Analysis: Blank cheque or ticket to nowhere?
The government and many universities see patenting as a way to generate much-needed money. But Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis find the reality often falls short of the rhetoric. In 1998, the...
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Whistleblowers: Doctor's 'discrimination' case is taken further
The Privy Council will be asked to investigate an Asian student's failed ten-year struggle to qualify as a doctor at Sheffield University. Sushant Varma had to resit one exam four times because of...
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Canada 'unforgiving' to debtors
A Canadian scheme to help university graduates saddled with student-loan debts has benefited less than 4 per cent of the people it sought to assist. Debt Reduction in Repayment is debt-forgiveness in...
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RMIT set to build a £22 million campus in Vietnam
Melbourne's RMIT University will soon start construction of a $31.5 million (£22 million) campus on 140 acres in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City. RMIT, which claims to be the first foreign educational...
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In brief
Bologna Assassins gunned down Marco Biagi, 52, a professor of economics at the University of Modena, outside his home on Tuesday. Professor Biagi was an advisor to the labour ministry, which has been...
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Israel's curfews hit classes
Lecturers and students at West Bank universities are assessing the damage caused during the week-long incursion by the Israeli Defence Forces. Ghassan Khatib, director of the Jerusalem Media and...
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Botswana reopens following boycott
The University of Botswana has reopened after a three-week closure but all returning students have had to sign a document binding them to guidelines and procedures "for the resolution of student...
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Makerere makes bid to improve elocution
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Split infinitives, uncrossed ts and garbled...
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Czech course helps medics to work worldwide
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Ottomar Kittnar delves into ancient European...
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Opting for Inglese prose and Italian poetry
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. When Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government...
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Time to parler Anglais? (2)
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. English-medium instruction is increasing in...
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Time to parler Anglais?
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Montreal's French-speaking students have been...
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Call for Dutch to brush up on translation
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. At the end of the 1980s, a wild rumour circulated...
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Medics get to heart of matter
German medical students will soon be able to take a virtual 3-D trip inside the human body with the aid of a pioneering computer system. The program, virtusMED, will be introduced in medical training...
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Small states offered virtual aid
The Commonwealth's small states - those with fewer than 1.5 million people - are to get a virtual university to help find solutions to their common problems. Tiny populations, minuscule land area,...