Legions of international quality inspectors could soon be unleashed on UK universities, potentially undoing years of work to deliver a "light touch" quality assurance regime in England, the Quality...
Academics will be consulted widely under Labour Party plans to launch its own research centre. David Triesman, party general secretary, this week confirmed the creation of Forethought, a centre...
The Universidad de Buenos Aires has elected a new rector at the second attempt. Medical professor Jaim Etcheverry will replace Oscar Shuberoff. Last week's election was abandoned after a student...
Further education improves students' self-esteem and skills and creates social networks, according to a report from the Institute of Education. "Interactions between students were thought to be...
A government education adviser has warned that Labour's lifelong learning policy is destined to hit the buffers as almost every initiative has flopped. John Field, a professor of education who helped...
More than 6,000 companies bought £33 million of training from Scottish higher education institutions last year, says Universities Scotland in a brochure showcasing the sector's contribution to...
Two new regulatory councils for the health professions came into being on Monday, writes Claire Sanders. Jonathan Asbridge, deputy chief executive at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital,...
Brussels, 04 April 2002 The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for indirect RT (research and training) actions under the specific programme for research and training (Euratom) in the...
Brussels, 04 April 2002 Africa needs more international support in conducting clinical trials as the number carried out currently is insufficient in considering the prevalence of disease in the...
A project to explore how the internet can influence the public's impact on the earth's resources has been launched at University College London. Researchers aim to track the behaviour of 40,000...
The first British research centre committed to the study of the privatisation of higher education has opened at Newcastle University. The founders of the E. G. West Centre say that the fact that they...
Cardiff has advanced from crisis to world-class status. Tony Tysome reports. If the results of last year's research assessment exercise were a cause for back-patting up and down the country, at...
The National Probation Service has put the diploma in probation studies at the heart of a recruitment drive designed to attract 1,000 new trainee probation officers. The diploma, introduced in 1998,...
A dental decay detector and a library of shark antibodies are among 38 research projects to win £6 million in backing from Scotland's innovative proof of concept fund. Dental researchers at Dundee...
Compulsory computers for all students could soon become a reality, according to TechLearn, the technology-transfer arm of the Joint Information Systems Committee. More than 75 per cent of students...