Sydney Chadwick
(Photograph) - Mature student: Sydney Chadwick, aged 97, was presented with learning vouchers worth Pounds 250 by lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks as part of the Adult Learners Week...
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Scots give students child-care aid
College students in Scotland will be able to access an Pounds 8 million child-care package from August, while graduates will be expected to contribute to the endowment scheme once they earn Pounds 10...
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College sees its future in glass site
Sunderland University plans to invest up to Pounds 1 million in creating an educational facility for people working in glass, ceramics and related arts at the city's National Glass Centre (left),...
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Libraries unite over copyright
University libraries in the US have joined forces to push for institutions to exercise greater control over copyright generated by academics in an effort break the stranglehold publishers have on...
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Interactive assessment could put humans out of the game
The Scottish post-school examination system, which has already undergone radical reforms, faces a further revolution within five years because of information technology. The prediction came from Ron...
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Call for EU resources to double
The European Parliament wants each member state to spend at least 3 per cent of its gross domestic product on research - nearly double the current amount. Responding last week to the European...
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Lifelong learning to benefit from funding boost
British universities and colleges will be able to bid for grants from a E4.7 billion (Pounds 2.9 billion)budget, financed by the European Commission, writes Keith Nuthall. The money is earmarked for...
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Indian beauty loves the Brit buzz
It was more like a movie premiere than the launch of a higher education recruitment campaign. Celebrities from the worlds of film, TV and fashion joined politicians and businessmen for a glitzy gala...
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College leavers untaxed by jobs
More than half of Northern Ireland graduates feel that their skills and talents are underused in the province's business and industry and that local employers do not help develop their skills,...
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Promotion farrago
How does Cambridge University decide who to promote to one of the tiny number of esteemed personal professorships each year? Judging by a transcript of a taped formal feedback session given to a now-...
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Footprints show UK is trailing US
British chemical engineers are falling behind their US counterparts in carrying out leading-edge work, according to a new method of analysing citations of papers. And it seems the research assessment...
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Good practice makes perfect
High-profile blunders and a wary public have led to calls for more guidance for professionals. Claire Sanders reports Professionals are under fire from the public and the government. The bodies that...
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Dentists open for lifelong lessons
The General Dental Council is the statutory regulatory body of the UK dental profession. It is responsible for overseeing educational and professional standards. Dentists who fail to meet these can...
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Don's Diary
Monday After ten years of lecturing, spending a year as a Bar student was always going to be an odd experience. The course has certainly provided the insight into legal practice, life outside academe...
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Birds and the baroness
When Baroness Blackstone agreed to swap jobs for the morning with Joyce Taylor, chief executive of the Discovery Channel, to mark yesterday's Learning at Work Day, she was probably unaware of a song...