Mrs T =MC2
Simon Targett reports on the link between creativity and leadership. Einstein and Thatcher. Two names to conjure with, for sure. But in the same breath? That is what Harvard professor Howard Gardner...
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FE degree funding future in doubt
Future payments to further education colleges providing degree and sub-degree level courses is under review by the Higher Education Funding Council which next week publishes a report giving the...
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LSE head 'not quitting'
John Ashworth, director of the London School of Economics, says he has not ruled out a second term of office if it were offered to him. Dr Ashworth's six-year fixed term appointment ends in September...
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Public is prepared to pay for tuition
Plans for making students from well-off families contribute towards the cost of higher education need not necessarily be a vote loser, a MORI poll commissioned by The THES has shown. Fears of...
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Patently absurd
The wacky patent application competition 1994, held by Chemistry & Industry magazine, yields one UK winner who has proposed a waterproof bird-feeder. Trevor Rowston of Nottingham has designed...
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Stirk gang
Sideswipe no 98 is Robert Burns' acid view of the Scottish universities, communicated in his Epistle to J. Lapraik (1785): "A set o'dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes; They...
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Whispering silks
(Photograph) - Lecturers at Langside College, Glasgow, have been using national dress to help teach English to women at the Meridian Black and Ethnic Minority Women's Information and Resource Centre...
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Women escape to work
The development of a burgeoning textile industry in Bangladesh is responsible for significant improvements in the status and health of many women, researchers at Southampton University have...
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Computers solve learning problems
A research centre has been set up at the University of Teesside to develop new ways of helping people with learning difficulties by using sophisticated computer technology. Researchers at the special...
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Spaniards graduate to dole queues
Spaniards in higher education are considerably worse off than their European Union counterparts according to a report by the educational assessment body of the European Union, the Industrial Research...
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Australians see gold on road to Bangkok
Selling higher education to foreigners is now worth more than $1.5 billion (Pounds 750 million) a year to Australia and the federal government expects earnings to rise sharply following its latest...
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How nitrate could bring an end to heartache
There are hopes of major improvements in the care of angina patients following the successful investigation of a newly developed nitrate medicine by researchers at King's College School of Medicine...
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Danes set sights on market
Denmark should focus support for academic and public research more selectively on areas where it can be a world leader, according to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development....
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Vivisectionists find tougher trail to MPs
The case for animal experiments will be harder to defend as a result of new guidelines from the Charity Commission, says the Association of Medical Research Charities. The guidelines, issued last...