Jobs, industry and commercial networks, training for local business, part-time degrees for the community - just some of the things HE institutions are doing for East Anglia Low participation meets...
CHINESE teacher training colleges must update their teaching programmes to world standards, and local governments across the country must raise more money for teacher training buildings, equipment...
JAPAN'S medical students should spend less time mastering medical facts and figures and more time working on improving their bedside skills, according to one of the country's leading doctor-lecturers...
LAST April, when the Federal Court in Sydney began hearing what became known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", Justice Ronald Sackville asked, "Where will we start?". The senior counsel for...
AN Australian university claims that Britain is trying to take advantage of the federal government's refusal to admit a number of Chinese students by suggesting they could enrol in British...
WHILE Canadians have re-elected Jean Chretien and his Liberal government, they have dropped him into a legislature that looks completely different. Upon calling the election, the centrist Liberals...
TAKING over a new "super" ministry embracing education, research and technology last week, geophysicist Claude All gre promised there would be "no shocks" to the education system, but "reforms to...
FURTHER education will benefit from the new administration in the Irish Republic following last week's general election, which resulted in a hung Dail - the lower house of parliament. All the main...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation AS Nearly half a million French school students prepare to take the baccalaureat, this educational...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Modest proposals by the Japanese education ministry for a fast-track system in which above-average...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation Despite legal hurdles and furious protests from the student left, Italian universities are increasingly...
NINETEEN ninety-seven is an important year for medical education. Medical schools have recently come through the research assessment exercise with considerable misgivings and some trauma. Sir Rex...
The review of public/private partnerships due today should kick-start university building projects which have been waiting for new guidance, say David Cuckson and Peter Walters Friday the 13th may be...
The anonymity of candidates is not sufficiently protected by the substitution of numbers for names, says Roger Watson Anonymous marking has become almost universal in higher education in the past ten...
Although Terry Hyland (THES, May 2) complains that transferable skills cannot be defined, I think I can offer a few suggestions. I would define communication skills as the ability to talk/write to an...