Industrialists want to play a greater part in Scotland's quality assessment system, according to the latest evaluation of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's scheme. Researchers at Moray...
(Photograph) - Three times lucky: Ian Springford, an architecture student at Edinburgh College of Art, has won first, second and third prizes in the graduates' section of the international 1995 OASYS...
The rush by universities to the door of the money markets, which began in earnest last week when Lancaster University became the first higher education institution to launch a bond scheme, could lead...
The Government quango charged with introducing a unified national vocational qualifications system - which would mean universities offering undergraduate and postgraduate NVQs and GNVQs - is set to...
Adult educationists in Scotland would like a new Scottish council for continuing education to help bring together the sector's diverse interests. This is the majority view among a sample of Scottish...
(Photograph) - Freebie deal: Students at the University of Plymouth's new Pounds 14 million Robbins hall of residence have ended a nine-week rent strike in return for a Pounds ,000 rent cut and...
Only the newest of Scotland's 13 universities, the University of Abertay Dundee, has revealed its principal's salary, a year before being required to do so, according to figures from the Scottish...
A campaign for cuts in the structure of lecturers' union Natfhe has been launched by its general secretary, John Akker. Fears of a financial crisis lie behind his proposals to reduce the number of...
A World Health Organisation adviser has appealed to academic chemists and to the drug industry to give tropical disease researchers access to their chemicals. The researchers need to screen them for...
There's nothing like slightly outre academic expertise to get the odd phone calls coming in. Roderick Floud, the provost of London Guildhall University, is also a leading authority on height through...
Reassurance for those with doubts about the Foreign Office's sources of advice from the latest issue of PSA News: "Basil Eastwood (Head of Research and Analysis Department, FCO), spoke to GOD at...
What you find disgusting is not a unique aspect of your multi-faceted personality but falls neatly into one of five categories common to all of us, psychologists have discovered. Karen Barker of City...
Good news for Saville Row. The highly tasteful invitation to the National History Museum membership scheme launch, sponsored by Glaxo, includes the invaluable information that it "Admits Two Lounge...
One of the first recruits to the University of Warwick's prestigious research fellowships is Sadie Plant, now at the University of Birmingham, who has been described in another newspaper as the...
Those doggone days waiting at the kennels for the owner to return from holiday could soon be over, thanks to scientists. They are raiding the anti-depressant cupboards at drug company Upjohn to find...