The government announced last week that performance tables for teacher training institutions would be published from July 1998. Ms Russell said that UCET would accept publication, but only if the...
What is the future of nursing education as more school-leavers attend university? Julia Hinde reports The provision of nursing degrees should be planned centrally and not at a local level, say...
The Association of University Teachers has rejected the recommendation of an independent arbitrator that it should pay Pounds 18,000 compensation to a member who alleges he was inadequately...
BIOTECHNOLOGIST Janet Bainbridge is an authority on, among other things, Quorn. This unusual expertise is about to come in to its own as food minister Jeff Rooker has just asked her to chair the...
THREE rival universities in Yorkshire have joined forces to exploit blue skies biotechnology research worth Pounds 40 million annually. The White Rose Biotechnology Consortium has been formed by the...
THE BIOTECHNOLOGY and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced the finalists for a national competition to encourage business acumen among young scientists in universities. The qualifying...
PRINCE Charles has called for a professional and public debate over the status of complementary and alternative medicine, which he argues should be integrated with orthodox treatments. His comments...
JONATHAN Lamb, an internationally renowned immunologist, this week unveiled research he hopes will produce a dust mite vaccine to help asthma, rhinitis and eczema sufferers, writes Olga Wojtas....
FEW terms in the English language carry more negative baggage than "suburban", which conjures up images of complacent, conformist, conservative mediocrity. Mark Clapson, senior lecturer in history at...
EUROPE. Higher education and scholarly culture in Armenia needs a massive reconstruction effort if it is to escape from its post-Soviet crisis, Catholicos Karekin I, the head of the Armenian church...
EUROPE. After 40 years of often bitter debate, the city of Bolzano/Bozen, capital of Italy's German-speaking Alto Adige province, is to have its own university. Stiff opposition had come from the...
EUROPE. Young communists are building a new youth movement in Russia's universities despite laws forbidding political activity on campus. Members of the youth wing of the Communist Party of the...
EUROPE. For the first time, the German research association DFG has published a league table showing rankings based on its research funding allocations between 1991 and 1995. The most surprising...
EUROPE. The president of Paris-X Nanterre University, Michel Imberty, has resigned after being forced to enroll extra students with no extra resources. Francoise Renversez, a 64-year-old economics...
AUSTRALIA. THE AUSTRALIAN government has rejected key proposals put forward by a committee it established to advise on the future of the nation's higher education system even before the committee's...