Culture secretary Chris Smith has announced a Pounds 1.5 million-a-year scheme to help boost film production training in Britain. The funding will finance training in camera and sound work, editing...
The European Union should borrow the British government's idea of setting up university enterprise centres to create 20 of its own to help boost the high-tech sector, according to a report this week...
Industry leaders and academics met yesterday to discuss ways of forging stronger partnerships between universities and businesses. Michael Zietlyn, director of the conference organiser, Oakland...
The Universities of Aston and Birmingham have embarked on what has been described as an institutional collaboration. The move comes as a response to the government's request that universities co-...
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has made a multimillion-pound donation to Oxford University's Said Business School. The undisclosed sum from the former supermarket chairman is to be put towards a...
Some primary school teacher training providers are still falling short of minimum quality standards, schools inspector Ofsted has warned. Ofsted's primary follow-up survey, 1996-98, found that 34...
Universities are wasting millions of pounds purchasing goods and services without expert advice and proper procurement strategies, the public spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office...
The Center for Millennial Studies, which bills itself as the world's largest academic research centre dedicated to the millennium, has opened an international archive for materials relating to the...
Rome The Italian government has approved legislation aimed at ending years of confusion, chaos and legal wrangling over limits on access to certain degree courses. The package of new laws, if...
Paris The bookshop of the Presses Universitaires de France, one of the major cultural and intellectual landmarks of Paris's university district, is facing closure. The shop, on the corner of the...
Fifty-three per cent of women at Aberystwyth University are unhappy with their body image, according to a survey carried out by its Guild of Students. The majority would like to be at least two sizes...
According to an Office of Science and Technology study published this week, 57 per cent of people cited the development of medicines, 51 per cent organ transplants and 43 per cent the eradication of...
Amid familiar scenes of placards, megaphones and chanting students, about 100 or so academics and their supporters turned out for a lunchtime rally at Leeds University on Tuesday. The morning picket...
The Universities Personnel Association has hit out at the blanket pay rises anticipated to be recommended by Bett. "The sector is incredibly diverse in terms of its mission statements, ability to pay...
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has decided to penalise physics departments in which students take longer than average to submit their PhDs. But British physicists have warned...