Kingston University has succeeded in winning a contract of almost double the normal length with the National Health Service for its new nurse training department. University spokesmen say that the...
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, has unexpectedly backed plans for a University of the Highlands and Islands, previously cold- shouldered by the Scottish Office, writes Olga Wojtas....
Are girls put off computing by the nerdy image of an anorak-wearing boffin who communes with a terminal and is, above all, male? The answer, according to John Wilkes, senior lecturer in computing at...
An initiative to get more scientists and engineers into a broader range of jobs in the civil service is being planned by the Government and will be included in a white paper to be published later...
South Thames Training and Enterprise Council, which went into receivership in 1994, was paid around Pounds 10 million for running courses for non-existent courses, according to the National Audit...
The Council for Industry and Higher Education has called for a national investigation in to how employers can increase opportunities for students to use workplaces as raw material for learning.
Another bidder for the Overseas Development Administration's research arm has fallen by the wayside. Cranfield University has pulled out of the competition to buy the Natural Resources Institute, to...
Coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not, but the Higher Education Funding Council for England is making a video explaining the allocation process. Based on one of the books that did not quite...
A sizeable chunk of Government spending on science and technology should go on funding a "big idea" such as improving air quality or eradicating a disease, according to a policy paper from the...
Is the Nolan committee's travelling roadshow beginning to suffer from jet lag? After visiting Cardiff two weeks ago, the committee last week headed north of the border, where one member of the...
At least one vice chancellor has been reflecting that the grass is always greener on the other side as a result of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals unprecedented and somewhat vertigo-...
A leading academic is calling for a review of A-level English syllabuses amid claims that school pupils are increasingly poorly read. Martin Dodsworth of Royal Holloway College, University of London...
