Brussels, 14 June 2002 · RTD programme-Modification Rapporteur: Mr Bernabei (Employers - I) - Reference: COM(2001) 9 final + 594 final - CES 693/2002 - Key points: The measures set out in the...
Brussels, 14 June 2002 Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin chaired an information day on new frontiers in nanotechnology in Grenoble, France, on 14 June. Nanotechnology, which will be allocated...
Higher education ‘enhances social rift’ Social mobility has fallen in the UK over the past 40 years, and a key cause has been the rise in higher education, according to a study from the London School...
Pressure mounts on exams watchdog The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the government's exams watchdog, was today being put on notice that ministers may be running out of patience with its...
Cash and good planning are needed to bolster an undermined field, say Eric Evans and Jane Longmore. A quiet note of optimism is, at last, apparent in the arts and humanities. This comes after two...
Time and experience have made me a dab hand at fare dodging. God save the persecuted touts that lurk in the corners of London Underground! I have them to thank for almost affordable travel cards....
We should extend the right to liberty and equality to non-human animals, argues Steven Wise. The shock and novelty of the idea that basic legal rights for at least some non-human animals should be...
Differential fees have a crucial role to play in a mass system, argues Gordon Graham. Over the past ten years, British universities, like their US counterparts before them, have been democratised....
Brunel University has sold its Twickenham campus and unveiled plans to further restructure while offering its staff "incentives for excellence". The campus, a six-hectare riverside site, has been...
Four subject centres have received £75,000 for joint work to improve approaches to mental-health teaching in higher education. The centres plan to draft a code of good practice, develop web teaching...
The annual report of the Department for Education and Skills, formerly the Department of Education and Employment, was published this week. The departmental report details spending plans in all...
The answer to life, the universe and everything is also the average age of all academic staff - 42 - according to data published this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The total number...
Ministers will face increased pressure to raise student tuition fees if the government does not give universities enough cash in next month's comprehensive spending review. The THES has found growing...
News Borderless future for Britain's universities Features No more exotic: Jeremy MacClancy, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Alex De Waal debate the changing face of anthropology Stressed out? David...
The percentage of women in Scottish higher education has risen in the past ten years, the Scottish Executive has said. In 1989-90, 44 per cent of students were female. This rose to 55 per cent by...