Good neighbour
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
The Scottish Office has cut intakes to secondary teacher education courses by almost 200 to 1,210 in the coming session, and slightly boosted primary intakes by 50 to 1,050. Some new teachers are...
Science minister David Hunt has announced the expansion of a Government scheme encouraging collaboration between industry and researchers. The Realising Our Potential Award, known as Ropa, launched...
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London found guilty of racial discrimination at an industrial tribunal last November, is to appeal. Farhad Shahrokni, a maths and computer...
A clear link exists between persistent criminal behaviour by young offenders and high levels of drug use, according to Mike Collison of Keele University's department of criminology. But it is not the...
Food studies lecturer Stella Walsh is to monitor the diet and lifestyles of a group of pensioners in Leeds to discover what impact the introduction of VAT on fuel bills is having on their quality of...
Double-entry book-keeping has a special meaning at Copenhagen's School of Economics and Business Administration. The school has knowingly presented false budgets to the ministry of education to...
German student groups have called on the newly elected Federal Parliament to address a "long overdue increase in student grants as quickly as possible". Suggestions that students could be taken off...
Vice chancellor Peter Katjavivi hopes an increased budget will end the still rumbling dispute at the University of Namibia which led to a student march to the home of President Sam Nujoma last May....
Academics, homeless people and grassroots militants are holding the inaugural session of a "University against Exclusion" this weekend in premises taken over by a Parisian homeless action group last...
Survival is not guaranteed in the college sector any more. There are known to have been at-risk lists in higher education for well over a decade. Indeed last week the Public Accounts Committee was...
Should research funding be confined to a few large universities? A number of vice chancellors believe so. Derek Roberts, the provost of University College, says that the number of designated research...
It was characteristically generous of Peter Knight (THES, January 13) to acknowledge, as we have been reassuring him for three years, that the Higher Education Funding Council for England's funding...
(Photograph) - Beauty and beast: Aberdeen University is to create a database of mediaeval images from the Aberdeen Bestiary, an illuminated manuscript dating from around 1200, supported by a Pounds...
The sort of academic who forces us to question our very origins has struck again, this time at the root of the North Staffordshire pottery industry. Rodney Hampson, research fellow at Keele...