Fears over top pupil tests
More than half the schools in the north of England will not be offering advanced extension awards, the extra test for high flying A-level students, thus resurrecting early fears that the AEAs are...
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Colleges warn of funding gap
Colleges are warning that the Pounds 34.4 million allocated to fund the new A-level curriculum is not enough. As the Further Education Funding Council this week revealed its provisional funding...
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Sex change
(Photograph) - Female students at Glasgow University this week changed the names on university buildings to celebrate women rather than men. The students' representative council women's group marked...
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Competition for university status
A shake-out has begun in higher education colleges, with institutions racing to find their place in the rapidly changing higher education market. College heads are weighing up opportunities and...
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Call for more places
Further and higher education colleges have called for fresh expansion, while welcoming the extra student places they have been offered for next year. Large research-led universities won the lion's...
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A lack of funding and a hostile administration are holding back Welsh astronomical research into the origins of life
Where did we come from? The radical answer proposed by Fred Hoyle and I in the late 1970s was that we came from space. Our genes and those of all living forms on Earth were brought here by comets,...
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Sun, surf and a deradly melanoma
Australia could be turning the corner on its skin cancer epidemic. Julia Hinde explores the research frontier Up to two out of every three Australians will develop skin cancer during their lifetime....
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Charles is not the only one with distinctive ears
The eyes are not the only windows of the soul. Research by a team of scientists is seeking to confer equal status on the ears too, at least as far as identifying individuals is concerned. Experts at...
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Tests disprove we have eyes in back of our heads
Perhaps we have not got eyes in the back of our heads after all. A series of experiments that appeared to show that people innately knew when they were being stared at from behind may in fact have...
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Earth's hemispheres battle for oceans' heat
A global tug-of-war between the Earth's two hemispheres may lie behind the so-called mini ice age that chilled medieval Europe. Research by British and American experts has revealed a possible...
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Crisis aid delivery requires rethink
A humane response to 'complex emergencies' is not enough. Martin Ince reports on why a clear purpose for action is vital You will know from the television news what a "complex emergency" is, and you...
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Unions court working students with low join-up fees
Students need trade unions, according to a survey of undergraduate working trends by the Trades Union Congress. Approximately 70 per cent of the 311 students who took part in the Students@work.2000...
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Academics face egotism charge
A charge of "rampant egotism" was this week levelled at Britain's academics by the former chief executive of the Industrial Society and personnel director of the London Stock Exchange. Rhiannon...
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Minister calls for education spending
Government and industry need to plough more into education, training, research and development, trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers said this week. But Mr Byers, who spoke at the Knowledge...
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A new underclass could be created in Northern Ireland
A new underclass could be created in Northern Ireland, Queen's University's vice-chancellor George Bain has warned. Professor Bain said that many people could be excluded as employment shifted to...