American millionaires who donate large sums of money to their alma maters are increasingly doing so with strings attached. So the decision of Texas billionaire Lee Bass to give $20 million (Pounds 13...
A Bill approved by the United States House of Representatives economic and educational opportunities committee, will prevent legal immigrants who have not applied for citizenship from qualifying for...
To receive a letter saying "Welcome to Cornell" and "We are delighted to welcome you to the university", would tend to give the impression you had gained admittance, writes Lucy Hodges. Elizabeth...
Members of Canadian universities fear their institutions will lose as the provinces exercise greater control over spending under changes introduced in the 1995/96 budget. Cash payments are expected...
An effort to reform quality control in United States colleges and universities is running into such stiff opposition that it may be ditched if a consensus cannot be reached. Some university...
The Government has been criticised for closing a loophole over course fees for overseas students without offering protection from the full cost for asylum seekers. Tim Boswell, further and higher...
Julian Hunt, president of the Institute of Mathematics, yesterday held out the promise of mathematicians in the future being able to differentiate between natural and man-made variability in the...
A controversial approach to providing research and information back-up for health professionals is the focus of a centre opened in Oxford this week. "Evidence-based medicine" is an idea imported from...
A new model of the effects of global warming predicts that wheat crop production could drop by a third in drought-prone countries and those of low latitude. But crop production could surge elsewhere...
A multi-disciplinary approach to problems faced by heart surgeons is producing significant progress in the treatment of coronary disease, according to Gianni Angelini, professor of cardiothoracic...
Home Office delays are preventing the final chapter being written in an archaeological quest to recover the head of Yagan, an assassinated Aboriginal leader. Southampton University postgraduate...
A world of half-mile high skyscrapers has come closer with the development of a new super concrete at Dundee University. "Nothing can touch this material. It has amazing properties," said Rod Jones...
Workers at Japanese manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom are involved much more in the running and management of their plants than employees in British and other foreign-owned companies,...
"Ten years ago, everyone wanted to study Marxism. Today, it is nationalism and ethnicity." So said Brendan O'Leary, lecturer at the London School of Economics, at the fifth annual conference of the...
A machine that can "unpack" suitcases electronically could soon be piloted in a British airport as a result of a breakthrough in X-ray imaging at Nottingham Trent University. Bags put in X-ray...