One of the justifications for making students pay towards their tuition costs is that they are going to earn so much more than non-graduates once they are clutching their degree certificates. But,...
Fluctuating exchange rates complicate comparisons between minimum wage levels across Europe. Broadly speaking, the Pounds 4 per hour proposed by the Transport and General Workers Union in Britain...
Margaret of Mar thinks she has organophosphate poisoning. And she believes she is not the only one to be contaminated. Julia Hinde reports When not tending vegetables or making cheese on her...
How well has British industry exploited the many inventions made by UK universities and research institutes? Not well enough, Graham Spinardi finds The United Kingdom's record is pretty poor when it...
The high potential strength of carbon fibre was first realised in 1963 in a process developed at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. The process was patented by the Ministry of Defence...
Jared Diamond asks why the sex life of humans differs so substantially from that of even our nearest relations in the animal world Sex preoccupies us. It is the source of our most intense pleasures...
The day began with Sir Ron Dearing posing in a haze of flash photography behind a pile of stout, green, multi-volumed reports. By early evening he had been upstaged. The real star was far younger and...
Medicine and mountains: both are benefiting from anthropology studies INFRA-RED cameras installed in the bedrooms of families in north-east England could shed light on modern sleeping behaviour and...
Private universities are labouring against opposition, reports Rebecca Warden from Barcelona THE so-called bishops' universities are the latest private education ventures to hit the headlines. Two...
(Photograph) - David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, sees the funny side of life with Christine Cheesman, chief executive of the Association of University and...
"Don't do it," a colleague with many booksbehind him tells me. I try to recall my supervisor's enthusiasm for making a book from my PhD. May Readers' reports from academic publishers are not so...
At least 700 Scottish academics and another 700 non-academic staff could be made redundant if Government budget cuts go ahead. The Association of University Teachers Scotland and the Committee of...
Private universities are labouring against opposition, reports Rebecca Warden from Barcelona PRIVATE universities are on the increase in Spain. There are now ten, teaching some 70,000, or just 1.7...
The European Commission was this week urgently revising its new Socrates exchange programme following the loss of a major British player and warnings of a Europe-wide credibility crisis. The...
Private universities are labouring against opposition, reports Rebecca Warden from Barcelona WHAT'S in a name? If the dispute over the Free University of Catalonia is anything to go by, the answer...