Still room for improvement
The UK is moving towards mass higher education, and there has been progress in widening access. But opportunity remains unequally distributed. John Pratt reports on a Ucas study that reveals some...
The UK is moving towards mass higher education, and there has been progress in widening access. But opportunity remains unequally distributed. John Pratt reports on a Ucas study that reveals some...
Strasbourg, 2 July 2002 Mr President, Honourable Members, May I first express my thanks for all the hard work that has taken place in the different Committees in relation to the proposal for a...
The future of chemistry and physics is under threat at a number of universities. Brunel may become the first United Kingdom university to stop all undergraduate physics and chemistry teaching...
Sky-high London housing costs are blighting lecturer recruitment. Universities are calling for more state help. University lecturers in London face low pay, crippling transport costs and the prospect...
FOR THE first time this year, fee-paying students from Singapore are expected to outnumber those from Malaysia in Australia's universities. Bad publicity in the Malaysian media last year over a...
The Implied Spider
Icons of Power
John Davies explores the inner precincts of a club that likes to say no to women, the Oxford and Cambridge. What is going on behind the neo-classical facade of 71 Pall Mall, London SW1, that has...
Tony Atkinson deplores the UK's record on income distribution and the relative neglect of the problem by economists. Income inequality has increased more sharply in the United Kingdom in the 1980s...
As tens of thousands of students in England receive their A-level results this week, the annual scramble for university places for those who miss their grades, known as clearing, begins. After last...