On M. K. Ashby's Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, 1859-1919. I first encountered Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, 1859-1919 as a postgraduate student researching the 19th-century popular press. The history of a...
Upanisads
Automating the Lexicon - English for the Computer
The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences
This week's First Impressions comes from a last-minute Catholic: "The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim." Entries should be submitted to...
IRELAND is likely to hold its general election on a Friday for the first time this year so that students can vote while making weekend visits home. May 23 is tipped as the most likely date.
British Aerospace is planning to lure top engineering graduates from an elite group of universities by offering them much higher starting salaries. A spokesman for BAe said the firm had been forced...
Inspectors have praised staff at Stoke College for delivering a generally sound education to students despite "serious failings" in the leadership and the institution's "severe financial difficulties...
The Further Education Funding Council is consulting colleges on the emerging conclusions of its widening participation committee, chaired by Helena Kennedy QC. The committee, which will report...
A NEW, independent professional association for teachers, to oversee training, professional development and standards in the profession, could soon be set up. The College of Preceptors is meeting...
MANUFACTURING companies headed by accountants perform better than those run by qualified scientists and engineers, according a study by Warwick University researchers. The report also says half of...
SCOTTISH scientists are anxiously awaiting the Millennium Commission's decision on supporting key strands of a national science network. The Scottish Science Trust, which includes leading academics,...
PROPOSED new rules for marking A-level mathematics discriminate against students choosing to study mechanics, an essential foundation for university engineering and physics, educationists have warned...
BRITISH space scientists have received the boost they had been hoping for with news that the Cluster mission which ended in an explosion nine months ago is to be relaunched. Funding to build Cluster...
Conrad Russell, scion of one of the most patrician families in the land, is unhappy with Tony Blair's lurch to the right. The Liberal Democrat peer tells Huw Richards why he detests new Labour...