Sergey Artobolevskiy on L. D. Stamp and S. Beaver's The British Isles: A Geographical and Economic Survey. During my 25-year career I have used thousands of books, from my early days at Moscow State...
(Photograph) - World View: A new exhibition The Earth and the Heavens opened earlier this month at the King's Library (within the British Museum, Great Russell Street London WC1) and runs until...
Liverpool's long-term unemployed are being asked to take the plunge into a unique Training for Work course - by starting each session with a jacuzzi. Merseyside Training and Enterprise "positive...
Middlesex University has joined the growing number of former polytechnics to create a court as a forum for wider community involvement in the university. It will meet annually and be made up of MPs,...
National negotiations on further education pay expected to take place today are set to hit a new low because of threats by the leader of the employer's side, Graham Baskerville, principal of...
English universities have been told to resubmit part of their applications for next year's cash allocations following a funding council inquiry. The resubmissions are for returns in the quality...
The Government is to publish a higher education green paper before the end of the year to tackle issues emerging from its review of the sector. The news was leaked by junior ministers shortly before...
(Photograph) - Sporting chance: Umer Rashid, a first-year student in computing at South Bank University and rising star with Middlesex County Cricket Club, is the sort of player that the initiatives...
Links between higher education and top-class sport are to be strengthened following the National Heritage department's new sports policy. A committee headed by Roger Bannister, former master of...
A common family of National Certificates regulated by a single qualifications body has been proposed by Sir Ron Dearing in an interim report on his review of education and training for 16 to 19-year-...
The licence application for a British university in Thailand is to be submitted this month following a three-month feasibility study which concluded that Thai economic and social conditions, demand...
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has written to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment this week with its own proposals for a single agency to assure quality in...
(Photograph) - First class: Students at University College Stockton's first ever graduation ceremony parade through the town to collect their degrees.
Ragnar Lofstedt fears that action on global warming will only start when the economic consequences begin to bite Global warming is one of the most controversial environmental topics - largely because...
Universities, those institutions devoted to free enquiry, are often not so open when it comes to their own archives. John Davies reports. What secret files does your university keep? How much...