Brussels, European Parliament - 19 September 2002 Mr Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to open this conference and I wish to thank the European Parliament, and in particular...
Brussels, 19 September 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen, Neglected diseases are an issue of utmost importance. More than 14 million people are dying each year from infections and parasitic diseases in the...
Extra £32m earmarked for FE Further education lecturers and support staff will share an extra £32 million allocated for pay this year. The Department for Education and Skill said today that the cash...
University places promised to A-level fix pupils Education secretary Estelle Morris last night guaranteed that all students who lost university places as a result of alleged A-level grade fixing...
American students returning to their campuses for the start of the school year are finding remarkable new amenities from room service and juice bars to personal trainers and whirlpool bath....
On a recent trip back to my university over summer, I ran into an old friend who manages a local bar. He explained that with freshers' week coming up, he and the other owners of pubs and bars in and...
Forget that 50 per cent. Reform student support and you widen participation, says David Rendel Addressing Universities UK's annual conference last week, Margaret Hodge advocated a greater role for...
The closure of a top department is a wake-up call to academics, argue Rebecca Boden and Debbie Epstein In theory, things couldn't look brighter for higher education: a government commitment to...
News The rise and rise of the university fat cats Features Jenny Uglow considers what the Lunar Society can tell us about intellectual clusters Frank Furedi asks if "new volunteerism" should be...
Princeton University has topped the US News & World Report rankings for 2003, with Harvard and Yale universities tying in second place.
The American University of Paris has appointed its first French president since it started 40 years ago. Gerardo della Paolera has joint Argentinian nationality and is a specialist in Latin American...
No cash, no expansion, was the threat from vice-chancellors this week after higher education minister Margaret Hodge said they were living in cloud-cuckoo land by calling for a £10 billion investment...
A foundation year run by elite universities to help students from non-traditional backgrounds to win places is being promoted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. But the institutions...
Science minister Lord Sainsbury told a meeting of university, government and industry representatives that academic salaries would play a major part in this autumn's higher education policy paper. "...
Legal proceedings against the Natural Environment Research Council to win damages for the victims of mass arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh have begun. A test case being pursued by two London law firms...