Government policies and projects should have a lifelong learning "impact assessment", Judith Summers, chair of adult learners network NIACE and a director at Macclesfield College, said this week at a...
Rapid advances in molecular biology are outstripping the current medical curriculum, according to a leading scientist, who has called for changes in the role and training of doctors. George Poste,...
The government's research councils will monitor the success rates of female scientists applying for research grants and fellowships. The decision follows a recent study of the Swedish Medical...
(Photograph) - American medical students are undertaking some of their training in Britain thanks to a transatlantic link between Ross University, with its medical school on the Caribbean island of...
Mary Lord has a "big thinking" vision for universities. And it will not be welcomed by many in higher education, admits the Training and Enterprise Council policy chief. Director of education and...
Given their intellectual resources, universities ought to be bursting with lucrative commercial ventures. But in the main, they are not. The few academics who have become successful entrepreneurs say...
PRE-NATAL screening for Down's syndrome is far from perfect, say health psychologists from a London medical school who are studying how best to convey that message to expectant mums. Researchers at...
THE relationship between an individual and his or her genetic status raises a difficult ethical dilemma. Even in families at high risk of a genetic disorder, many people choose not to know. But do...
Pisa. THE CAMPAIGN by foreign-language lecturers for the right to equal treatment at Italian universities moved forward another step with a judgment at the European Court of Justice last month. The...
Hamburg. SOME 40,000 students marched on the government in Bonn last week in one of the biggest student demonstrations since 1968. They were protesting about deteriorating quality in German...
A Sudanese economics student stabbed to death by a skinhead in Brno on November 8 could become the founding sacrifice of a campaign to stem the tide of racism in the Czech Republic. So wrote...
Paris. FRANCE is preparing to reform state secondary education in order to improve students' chances of coping with university and reduce drop-out rates, which are among the highest in the developed...
Melbourne. THE Australian government last week awarded what it claims is the world's richest prize to ten academics for the quality of their teaching. In the first ceremony of its kind to be held in...
Durban. SOUTH AFRICAN universities are bracing themselves for another round of tight government funding in the new year. The size of the financial pie may be the same as this year's, but universities...
China is to send more students to British universities for training as part of efforts to foster science and technology development and management reforms in the country's state-owned enterprises....