The internationalisation of education services has yet to receive the detailed attention foreshadowed by the World Trade Organisation more than two years ago. A focus on macroeconomic policy,...
Academics fill ranks of people's peers Edinburgh University vice-chancellor Sir Stewart Sutherland and former government chief scientist Sir Robert May are among the first 15 “people’s” peers. Also...
Austrian tenure talks falter Talks between the Austrian government and university teachers over plans to restrict academic tenure have broken down. The government believes new employment conditions,...
Financial Times Employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom will fall by 700,000 over the next 10 years, according to a Warwick University study commissioned by the government. BMW yesterday...
University of Strathclyde Ian Smith will succeed Douglas Weir as dean of the faculty of education. Leslie Sheldon , director of the English language teaching division at the University of Strathclyde...
University of Strathclyde Neil McGarvey , politics division, has been awarded the United Kingdom Public Administration Consortium Essay Competition - the prize, an expenses paid visit to Athens to...
As Britain's university sector strives for mass participation, Patricia Walker warns of a system where more means less. With more than 1,200 universities and junior colleges, and 3 million students,...
As the nights grow longer and the prostate region begins to creak, many of us look enthusiastically at early retirement. In my own case, the prospect of turning into a man of leisure was somewhat...
The relationship between the university and commerce poses a threat to long-term innovation, argues Jonathan Rutherford. "In the knowledge economy," prime minister Tony Blair declared recently, "...
Volcanic spires thatspew superheated toxic chemicals deep in the Indian Ocean are home to some of the earth's strangest creatures. Steve Farrar reports. A swarm of ghostlike shrimps billowed out of...
Altitude sickness is caused by an increase in capillary blood pressure in susceptible individuals, a study has revealed. The research by Marco Maggiorini and colleagues at Zurich University,...
In the 1930s, planting the hardy grass Spartina around Northern Ireland's coastline was seen as an ingenious way to protect the shore against erosion. But now scientists at the University of Ulster...
The discovery of a new superconductor leads to sleepless nights in Seattle and a surfing frenzy in Los Alamos. Superconductivity is one of nature's more exotic phenomena - perpetual motion in action...
A personal adviser is at the heart of an initiative that links services to help young people get back into education. Tony Tysome reports. The cybercafé on Coventry's infamous Wood End estate is like...
Scientists have complained that parliament is putting the brake on progress by dragging its feet over legislation on stem-cell research. The government needs to assign a regulator for stem cells to...