Paris, 05 July 2002 At the British Grand Prix next weekend, the McLaren team will have a special boost from space technology: their mechanics' suits will feature a cooling system, specially developed...
Brussels, 05 July 2002 The SME definition currently in force in Community law is that adopted by Commission Recommendation 96/280/EC. This text requires modification to: take account of economic...
Student fees could be doubled The education select committee is this week expected to recommend the doubling of university...
Learners lured by coffee and jazz Making education available in informal settings such as coffee lounges and shopping centres, and through social gatherings such as jazz evenings, is more likely to...
Coventry University student Stephen Brookes has been commissioned to create a series of radio programmes on pub culture. As part of his final-year media project for a degree in communication, culture...
An unfortunate incident occurred at last week's conference on the employability of non-traditional students. Colin Biggs, head of education consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, was obviously proud...
Andrzej Kozminski calls for a change in the state's role from owner of higher education to policy-maker Under authoritarian regimes, universities played a key role in preparing for transformation....
Shock, horror. What is the world coming to? A group of researchers from the universities of North London and Surrey have discovered that not every academic gives the same mark for a student's essay....
If universities gain independence, it will be the poor who lose out, argues Gill Evans The Russell Group has been making play with the idea of becoming independent of state control for some time. Now...
An obsession with monitoring is destroying higher education, argues Stephen Prickett In March 2001, along with several thousand others, I received a corrupt offer in the form of a letter from an...
Spending review date to be announced next week The date of the comprehensive spending review is to be announced next week, Robin Cook confirmed to the House of Commons yesterday. He told Tory former...
MPs have urged the government to abandon Capita in the development of new individual learning accounts after the company's "appalling failures" in delivering the first scheme. Capita won a £50...
Lecturers should spend time in the "real" world of work to learn the practical skills they need to teach job-seeking students. Too many lecturers have spent most or all their working lives in academe...
Cambridge University has backed down on proposals to increase the number of signatories needed to force a ballot at Regent House from ten to 50. The change was proposed by the university earlier this...
Foundation degrees for hairdressers, beauticians and aromatherapists will be offered next year under plans being developed by Thames Valley University. The university is developing an applied...