"New managerialism" is emerging as a dominant force in British higher education, according to a two-year study into the running of universities. A team led by Rosemary Deem, professor of education at...
A "not particularly conventional" fanfare for five groups of brass and percussion opens tonight's first night of the 2001 Promenade Concerts. It is by Colin Matthews, recently appointed professor of...
May I ensconce myself in a room roughly ten-foot square, switch on the kit and wait. The comp-uter screen bursts in to life: "Incoming call." Welcome to the age of the video conference; which enables...
King's College London has awarded fellowships to: Josephine Crocker , chairman of the King's Association; Judith Dunn , research professor at the Institute of Psychiatry; Thomas Lehner , professor of...
The e-university holding company has appointed: Sir Brian Fender , chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, chair; Alfred Morris , vice-chancellor of the University of the...
Nice to know the government is fulfilling its pledge to spend extra money on education. More than £56,000 - about 12 times the level of funding per student - has gone on renaming the Education and...
Whoever wins the Tory leadership contest will know he was not the first choice of his education team. Shadow education secretary Theresa May backed Michael Portillo from the start, while higher...
As St Andrews University awaits the arrival of new student Prince William, closely followed by a tabloid stake-out of any potential girlfriend, it must yearn for the constraints of the past. Patrick...
Film star Ewan McGregor got more than an honorary DLitt when he turned up at Ulster University last week. He is seeking banjo lessons for a film role and UU's Institute of Ulster-Scots has offered to...
The row over Oxford University's refusal to offer a place to state-school pupil Laura Spence generated reams of unfavourable publicity. But it seems they were right. "I don't feel that being from the...
The long-standing enmity between Armenians and Turks could be resolved by a "reconciliation commission", which met for its first session last week. Commission members from Armenia, Turkey, Russia and...
On Moroccan campuses, revolutionary ideals have been supplanted by Islamic fundamentalism, says Hassan Bouzidi. In the heyday of the Union Nationale des Etudiants du Maroc, the beard was worn as a...
Paris High salaries and job security are no longer what future managers demand most from their careers, a survey of European management students reveals. Carried out among almost 1,500 students at 11...
Scots students step up anti-fees campaign NUS Scotland is stepping up its campaign to ensure that fees are scrapped and grants returned for UK students in Scotland and Scottish students in...
Funds halted after Johns Hopkins death Federally financed medical studies on human subjects at the Johns Hopkins University have been halted by the United States Department of Health and Human...