(Photograph) - Two-step: "Salamanda Tandem", a dance double-act from Naomi Mutoh (right) and Isabel Jones, feature in the sixth Nottinghamshire dance festival, NOTT Dance, being staged at Nottingham...
News International is funding a lectureship at Birkbeck College, London. The post, in the college's department of management and business studies, was advertised in March. It will cost Pounds 198,000...
The Training and Enterprise National Council has called for a programme of establishing universities in regions without higher education, writes Simon Targett. The council, which represents the TECs...
The THES Internet Service, which includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper as well as all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper, is available...
Mike Bett is resigning the chairmanship of the TEC National Council after less than a year to avoid a clash of interests with his new regulatory role as first Civil Service commissioner.
Reduced student numbers are being blamed for an Pounds 896,000 deficit and up to 65 redundancies at Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough. The Further Education Funding Council said the loss was not...
The National Heart and Lung Institute in London has voted to merge with Imperial College on August 1. It will be followed in 1998 by the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Charing Cross and...
The Bar was thrown into fresh controversy over equal training opportunities this week when professional standards watchdogs were asked to consider complaints about private tuition arranged by Cherie...
Glasgow Caledonian University has opened an energy and environment centre to provide applied research, training and consultancy on waste and environmental management for industry and Government. Hugh...
The University of Exeter has applied for National Lottery funds to help preserve and show a collection of printed material and artefacts on the history and pre-history of cinema. The project,...
Most graduate jobs do not carry starting salaries above the repayment threshold for student loans, according to a Career Services Unit survey. CSU figures show that the average salary was Pounds 13,...
A discussion paper on the future funding of student support, launched this week by the National Union of Students, is heavily influenced by emerging Labour Party policy, student leaders claim....
University employers and union leaders were to meet yesterday to break the deadlock over proposed pay scales for l995/96. The Association of University Teachers rejected a 2.1 per cent pay offer from...
(Photograph) - Paddling for gold: Tim Bannister, a leisure student from Bicton College, Devon, trains in his Pounds 1,500 K1 sprint canoe on Bicton Lake for international regattas in Belgium and...
More than 200,000 new student places - equivalent to ten to 15 new universities - will have to be created by 2010 if working-class students are to be given an equal chance with middle-class...