Further education: ready to meet the challenge
Funding cuts have not halted the amazing rise of further education, says David Melville. As the Further Education Funding Council comes towards the end of its life, it is time to look back over the...
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Higher Channels
David Attenborough’s State of the Planet series devotes its second episode (Wednesday 9.10 BBC1) to a useful exposition of the "five human activities that are most threatening to biodiversity" (they...
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What a bit of dignity teaches us
He was once a prisoner at the mercy of the law. Now he is a judge who makes it. Albie Sachs tells Chris Bunting about justice and human rights in South Africa. Every afternoon, Albie Sachs listened...
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Marry up and stay home
It is not lack of opportunity that stops women climbing the career ladder, says Catherine Hakim, but their choice of marriages of unequals. Women have flooded into higher education over the past four...
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Psychiatry in dock as killers contribute toa boom business
With increasing litigation and strong links between crime and mental health, forensic psychiatry is a growth industry in America. Tim Cornwell reports. Forensic psychiatry, the mingling of psychiatry...
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Roll up for enrolment
Every year, increasing numbers of young people are able to enjoy the benefits of a university education. But, asks Alison Wolf, what about those who are left behind? 'If 100 percent participation...
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The slow but certain arrival of equality at Oxford University
Entrance to Oxford is becoming more meritocratic, but rising A-level results could pose a threat, argue A. H. Halsey and N. G. McCrum. How, asked R. H. Tawney more than 80 years ago, are we to rid...
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Universities win £1bn extra funding
Universities win £1bn extra funding UK higher education funding is to be boosted by £1 billion over the next three years. The Department for Education and Employment is expected to announce today...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES IBM is to equip some of its laptop computers with digital cameras paving the way for the widespread use of face recognition technology. THE GUARDIAN Online: Plans are afoot to turn us...
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Billion-pound increase in higher education cash
Universities were today awarded an extra £170 million for staff pay as part of an increase of nearly £1 billion in funding over the next three years. On top of the additional £50 million for pay in...
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Latest international news
Eritrea to enter internet age Plans to link the University of Asmara in Eritrea, the only African country not on the internet, have been announced by Eritrea’s ministry of transport and...
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Beta Cell Biology Consortium
Deadline: 16/03/2001
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Collaboration Between Chemists and Chemical Engineers
Deadline: 05/01/2001
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The Role of the Accounting and Finance Function
Deadline: 31/01/2001
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
(All time pm unless stated.) Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time (9.00 am R4). The last of the current series discusses nihilism, nothingness and Nietzsche with philosophers Rob Hopkins and Raymond Tallis....