Entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are "too easily satisfied" with their first million and suffer from a "poverty of ambition", according to Philip Treleaven of University College London. Professor...
Blue-skies university research must continue to be state funded while building closer links with the private sector, said Edith Cresson, European research and innovation commissioner. Mrs Cresson,...
People hanging on the telephone will stay on 20 per cent longer if they are met with music rather than voice messages. Psychologists from Leicester and Durham universities tested 103 callers, leaving...
Restaurants and fast-food outlets can fool the customer with thin-cut French fries, research at the Robert Gordon University has revealed. Thinner chips make for a bigger portion in the mind of the...
The National Union of Students is failing to represent the majority of its members by ignoring further education students, say college chiefs and student leaders. Led by the Association of Colleges,...
The country's best-paid academic in a publicly funded institution earned Pounds 220,000 in 1997-98, The THES can reveal. He or she was based at the London Business School and earned more than the...
The inspectors who judge schools should evaluate our university teaching, argues Peter Knight. I recently gave evidence to the government's select committee on education and employment. The subject...
* "I think staff here at Leeds Metropolitan will be surprised by this and will want to start asking questions. At the very least there is a question of fairness to be answered. Academic salaries have...
Excellence in public service won Sunderland University one of only two Cabinet Office "Charter Mark" awards given to the higher education sector in 1997. Sunderland's award stands until 2000, but the...
College managers have been known to admit privately that they may budget for unfair dismissal payouts when deciding to sack staff. With a maximum compensation of Pounds 12,000 at an industrial...
When she retires this summer, Jenny Shackleton, 55, principal of troubled Wirral Metropolitan College, will have spent 26 years involved in further education. The past 12, in the politically charged...
Monday The week starts with a strange need - where to find a stuffed fox. We want to investigate maternal responsiveness in sows and need to acquire a predator. One phone call to a contact in the...
Former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, 54, has been made chancellor of Newcastle University, where his eldest daughter Kate was an undergraduate. He hopes to promote the university abroad,...
Wendy Bickmore, geneticist in the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, has been awarded a $1 million (Pounds 570,000) James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in human genetics...
The Net of temptation Temptation arrived this month at Imperial College, London, in the form of a cash-for-qualifications offer through a mass email shot to students. The scam traders offered...