Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 5,000 teachers within five years following savage cuts to faculty of education enrolments that have reduced the supply of new teachers to dangerously low...
Hundreds of natural chemicals that could protect the skin from damaging ultraviolet rays have gone unnoticed by Western scientists because they only grow in the tropics, the British Association heard...
Cognitive therapy can cure 90 per cent of panic attacks, the British Association also heard. The therapy is much more successful than drug therapy, which works in 50 per cent of cases and has a far...
If a planet like earth exists elsewhere it would probably have the same species on it, the British Association heard. Evolutionary biologist Paul Harvey, of Oxford University, said that DNA testing...
Pollution from Chinese coal-fired power stations is comparable to that produced by volcanic eruptions, the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Newcastle University heard last week....
Students at Further Education colleges in Northern Ireland are being asked to reveal their religion when applying for courses. Managers at the colleges say they are only implementing a government...
Twenty Japanese students, whose studies were severely disrupted by the Kobe earthquake, will arrive in Wales later this month to take up university places in the principality. The five postgraduate...
Education and Employment and the Treasury emerged in a leaked confidential Whitehall paper last week. The draft paper prepared for Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment,...
Stress is good for you, former higher education minister Tim Boswell told the massed ranks of Britain's academic external relations professionals. Asked for his tips on stress management, Mr Boswell...
Assessors from the Royal Institute of British Architects will step into the nerve centre of a new Pounds 2 million teaching complex at Luton University next July to assess the final year's work of a...
Few students of Wye College will ever set foot in the small Kent village of that name in future. The reason is that the agricultural college of the University of London plans to double student...
The University of Abertay Dundee is validating a certificate of pastoral ministry aimed at lay people working for the church in the Roman Catholic dioceses of Dunkeld, Galloway and Motherwell....
Nearly three-quarters of unemployed adults on the Government's Training For Work programme were still out of work three months after completing the course, according to Training and Enterprise...
A. L. Rowse is 91, but like his fellow nonagenerian Lord Denning, he is never afraid of saying something controversial. Next week, he brings out Historians I Have Known where he attacks (and...
Southampton Institute has cancelled a part-time construction degree, leaving 32 students with no prospect of completing their course and no legal redress. The institute says in its prospectus that it...