English 'crucial' in Japan
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...
MELBOURNE Enrolments of foreign students in Australian universities are expected to exceed all records in 2000, partly as a result of a substantial growth in new markets. More than 100,000 fee-paying...
Following the spectacular growth of the University of Phoenix, Jon Marcus reports on an increasing enthusiasm in the United States for for-profit higher education. Although for-profit companies have...
The first students to enrol at Britain's new e-university will probably be using traditional distance-learning materials, the funding council has said. The e-university was launched last week by...
Amid government moves towards the United Kingdom's first e-university, Ulster University's pioneering virtual school is celebrating its first anniversary. The virtual school within the science...
Fewer overseas students are opting to study in Britain just when the government has set targets for increased numbers. Some fall in recruitment from Southeast Asia was to be expected because of the...
IT IS misleading to state that the new department of world music at Thames Valley is the first of its kind in a British university (THES, June ). The centre of music studies, School of Oriental and...
The medieval History Journal
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
Phoenicians
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
A start-up company formed by three academics from Liverpool John Moores University has developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way of eliminating industrial waste by using bugs....
As raging fires in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo fuelled fears that Southeast Asia would again be hit by haze, Malaysia's cabinet has refused to publish official pollution data. Ministers fear...
Australian universities earned almost A$800 million (Pounds 320 million) last year from fees paid by foreign students, who also spent another A$770 million on goods and services. More than 84,000...
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...