1 Should expansion in participation in post-16 education continue? How far should expansion go? 2 What role should post-16 education play in developing a modern, competitive economy? 3 Tuition fees...
(Photograph) - New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers, is seeking to revitalise the debate on student funding. In the first stage of a consultation exercise, the group...
One of the gardener's best friends, the worm, will face the formidable challenge next spring of converting a mixture of sewage sludge and colliery soil into relatively fertile soil. The task for the...
Sufferers from tension headaches may soon be regularly treated by acupuncture if research at the University of Exeter is successful. Researchers at the Centre for Complementary Health Studies in the...
Tourism expert Myra Shackley is heading for a forgotten part of the Guyanan jungle in a bid to save some of the world's last remaining giant otters from the threat of illegal hunting and extinction....
The University College Scarborough swapped its allegiance from Leeds University to York this week in a move which reflects the sea change in relations between universities and their colleges. George...
A Scottish lecturers' union is angry that its parent body has refused to allow potential merger talks with the Association of University Teachers. Leaders of the University Lecturers' Association,...
Law students from Northern Ireland have won their case in the Irish Republic. The high court in Dublin ruled after a complex two-month case that the Law Society in the Republic has been...
Nutritionists are so plagued by pressures from industry, governments and funding agencies that their science would appear "unacceptably relativist" to other disciplines, according to Prakash Shetty,...
As Parliament resumes this week, a growing consensus on further and higher education policies is emerging as the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats unveil their ideas for the future of...
Medical schools have welcomed National Health Service funding arrangements for medical and dental students despite uncertainty over finance for expansion. Health minister Gerald Malone has confirmed...
Glaxo Wellcome is giving a further Pounds 7 million to London's new strategic medical research institute this week for work on the role nitric oxide plays in sending messages through the central...
Otter droppings and grouse feathers will allow scientists to help Scottish wildlife conservationists. An ecological molecular genetics laboratory opened this week at Aberdeen University, bringing...
Huw Richards, in the first of a four-part series, evaluates the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise for 1996. The Research Assessment Exercise enters its fourth incarnation next year amid...
On his best orotund form in giving his talk at the Institute of Historical Research, Lord Jenkins found time to comment on other political figures as well as Gladstone. Focusing on his successor Lord...