Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A conference on the future of European Union research and development policies and opportunities for the new Member States will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 4 February. The...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A workshop on understanding the principles of electronic collaboration and dissemination tools that can be used to facilitate the implementation of Sixth Framework Programme (...
Family planning could play a decisive role in whether or not an infant will go to university in later life. Children born in September are 20 per cent more likely to enter higher education than those...
For an insight into the size of the task of ensuring that universities open their doors to students from poor backgrounds, the man charged with spearheading the initiative need look no further than...
The Nineties saw women enter university in record numbers - and they gain a far greater proportion of degrees than men. Should entrance requirements for male students now be lowered to correct this...
A £500 bursary will greet 17-year-old Ahmed Bana if he fulfils his aim of securing a place to study medicine. But the cash will not come from the university or the Government, but from his school,...
Brightside was the area of Sheffield hit hardest by the decline of the steel industry in the 1980s. It has high levels of second and third-generation unemployment, and the 1981 Census found that it...
Divisions in educational opportunities are found at every scale of the map, but the most stark are often between young people just streets apart, writes Lee Elliot Major A few hundred metres can make...
BRIGHTSIDE PUPILS The 1981 Census found that Brightside had the UK's highest proportion of people in unskilled jobs. Pupils there do not see a degree as necessary. Jessica Dalton is thinking of...
Poor students tend to stay in their home area and go to post-92 institutions despite getting top A-level grades. If they took their fair share of places at leading universities, 3,000 privately...
When there is only one choice, there is no choice, and the options for teenagers living in the Fenlands of East Anglia are limited. Beyond a further education college in the main urban centre, King's...
Fahmida Ferdous never doubted that she would one day enrol on a degree course. "I always knew I was going to university," she says. "My mum went to university, my cousins went. My grandad was a...
Londoners do worse at GCSE than their peers in the rest of the country yet they notch up a high participation rate. Lee Elliot Major reports on the factors behind this puzzle Here is an educational...
... if it is to be fair and protective of academic standards' Hefce's Young Participation in Higher Education report proves access is not a one-dimensional concept, says Times Higher editor John O'...
The statistics on students' backgrounds reveal how much work remains to be done in the battle to give all young people access to higher education, writes Peter Lampl Publishing benchmarks that show...