Royalty's rhyme and reason
The death last week of the Queen Mother was seen by many as marking the end of an era. But Declan Quigley argues that while the modern monarchy may have lost much of its influence, for many it...
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V-cs fear anti-Asian backlash
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors fear an anti-Asian immigration party's success in a Queensland state election could damage their overseas student recruiting drives and are trying to limit the damage. The...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author whose inexact anagram was to become immortal: "My dear Mark, Today...
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OU head leaves for challenge of Unesco's education effort
Open University vice-chancellor Sir John Daniel is to become assistant director general of Unesco, the United Nations' educational and cultural organisation, in Paris. Sir John said he was looking...
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Can this old house offer a new window on the world?
As Chatham House loses its director after a brief tenure, Claire Sanders considers the institute's challenges. When Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International...
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Dazzling tail lights
There is a new Moon on Tuesday, so the sky should be at its darkest. That will be perfect for viewing one of the most dazzling phenomena the heavens can offer - if it turns up. At about 10pm that...
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Pacific heads try for Apec influence
An elite group of Pacific Rim university heads is attempting to increase its influence on the leading agency for open trade and economic cooperation among Asia-Pacific economies. The Association of...
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First pure online MSc for Europe
The University of Liverpool and Dutch education specialists KIT eLearning launched the first pure online European MSc degree course on Tuesday, writes Tim Greenhalgh. John Latham, the university's...
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Modernity ushered in with a bang
India's Nuclear Bomb - New Nukes
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Banal Catalans and Bossi Italians
National Identities
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Making strides
China has made significant progress and overtaken Japan as Asia's number one nation for world-class universities with 21 institutions in the top 100.
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World awaits answer to $400m gene question
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...
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Global Learning: World Education Market 2001
The Global Learning supplement was published with The THES on 18 May 2001 and distributed at World Education Market (Vancouver, Canada: May 21-24, 2001). A challenge for our times With 872...
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Warming words but chill is still in the air
Does the strategic arms reduction treaty signed by Russia and the US liquidate 'the legacy of the cold war', asks At last week's summit between US president George W. Bush and Russian president...
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Brussels seeks state targets for research staff and output
European Union countries could face new benchmarks on staff numbers, spending and achievements in research, under proposals discussed in Brussels this week. Research ministers, meeting as The THES...