A report by corporate executives and university presidents predicts a social and economic crisis in the United States if more is not done to improve education for minorities and increase the number...
Targets are to be imposed on universities to encourage them to recruit more students. Four targets are being developed by the funding council. It wants to set goals to increase the proportion of...
College chiefs have presented the government with a £2.5 billion spending list that they say is needed over the next five years to recruit more students into further and higher education. The extra...
Brussels, 31 January 2002 EU Industry and Research ministers will meet for two days in Girona, Spain. During the first day, they will hold three debates together. On the second day they will meet...
Strasbourg, 31 January 2002 Subsequent to the vote in the German Bundestag, allowing the importation of human stem cells from abroad under strict control, the Secretary General of the Strasbourg-...
Brussels, 31 January 2002 Women in Industrial Research (WIR) So far, women and science activities have concentrated mainly on the public research sector. In order to develop effective strategies to...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The Industry Committee is strongly backing the Galileo satellite radionavigation system, which is designed to give Europe an independent technology, applicable to a wide...
Charges brought against 11 in ILA case Eleven people have been charged with plotting to defraud the government's Individual Learning Accounts scheme. They are bailed to appear before Northampton...
Most teachers say they have enough cash The stereotypical image of teachers as cash-strapped malcontents is banished today with the publication of a survey showing an unappreciated level of affluence...
Top universities are preparing for a showdown with the government over quality assessment. The "94 Group" of research-intensive universities is joining forces with the elite Russell Group of 19 top...
In Defence of Politics
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work about the King, as was, and Lord Copper: "This is not a story of love and sacrifice, although...
American Crucible - Cold War Civil Rights