Brussels, 26 Sep 2002 The Descartes Prize - now in its third year - was designed by the European Commission's Research Directorate General to reward scientific projects that address the concerns of...
The influential Carnegie Corporation of New York has called for a radical revamping of the way American teachers are trained by schools of education, asking for a two-year "residency" programme...
Even if the inquiries into this year's A-level results succeed in identifying blame, there are underlying problems that will not go away. Outstanding is the fact that the system that has emerged from...
News End of semesters, return to common sense? Features John Gray cuts through the arguments for and against war in Iraq Big Science Question: John Leslie ponders how the world will end The Tories...
It's how standards are set, not what kind of exam students take, that matters, says Dylan Wiliam. Whether the standards of awards made at A level this year are comparable to those made last year...
Universities would do the best job - and they need the cash, argues Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon. What should happen to A levels? In my view, they should probably be returned to universities. I say "...
Business and management studies are by far the most popular subjects among overseas postgraduate students coming to the UK, says events organiser Top University Tour. Engineering is the top choice of...
Police in Bari last week raided a room in which an exam for an academic post was being held after a report alleging that the winner had been chosen beforehand. The University of Bari, in southern...
Israeli academics have circulated a letter warning the international community that their government may use the "fog of war" against Iraq to commit "crimes" against the Palestinian people.
Denmark's Selandia College and the University of Central Lancashire are collaborating in a European Union-funded project to create a virtual university in Pakistan.
Too late for A-level victims, say universities Universities have warned ministers that they face unprecedented levels of disruption if they are forced to take in thousands of new students as a result...
To pee or not to pee, that is the question set to spark controversy at a forthcoming meeting of the world's leading dinosaur experts. Research by Gale Bishop, director of the South Dakota school of...
Some universities will not be able to pay academics their promised 3.5 per cent pay rise in full, employers have warned. They are in such financial trouble they might have to put off paying the...
A European cancer research area is needed to cut the fragmentation and duplication of effort among European Union member states, said research commissioner Philippe Busquin. A conference of European...
Social anthropologist Anthony Cohen, provost of law and social sciences at Edinburgh University, has been appointed principal of Queen Margaret University College. He will succeed Joan Stringer, who...