Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links De Montfort is not an easy place to...
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links Academics at Warwick University...
DIFFERENCES between north and south European education systems are hampering attempts to develop joint lifelong learning policies, according to London Institute of Education research. A paper to be...
SECONDARY school girls are more career-minded and more likely to be planning to go on to higher education than boys, new research suggests. They spend more time on homework and less time watching...
A trial into the effects of aspirin on people at risk from heart disease or strokes is under way in Lanarkshire, which has the highest death rate from heart disease in Scotland. Edinburgh University'...
PHYSICISTS at Edinburgh University are working to improve the quality of mass-produced musical wind instruments to make British manufacturers more competitive. Backed by the Engineering and Physical...
THE SEARCH for genes that make cereals and grasses resistant to diseases is under way at the John Innes Centre in Norwich as part of a Pounds 1.5 million European project. The JIC team will compare...
An American family foundation has stepped forward to bankroll a multi-million dollar emergency loan programme to help Asian students through their countries' economic crises. The Freeman Foundation,...
Nigerian students have defied a "shoot-to-kill" warning from police and protested at the support of the country's five registered political parties for General Sani Abacha as the sole presidential...
PROFESSORS at two United States universities say after ten years of research they have perfected technology that can accurately evaluate student essays. The Intelligent Essay Assessor uses...
City University professor Norman Fenton and two colleagues have started a consultancy company specialising in risk management for business-critical and safety-critical systems. Agena helps clients to...
MEDICAL researchers in Canada have found a strong association with authors' published positions on the safety of a specific drug and their financial relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers. A...
ITALY is once again incurring European wrath over its recalcitrance in offering jobs to engineers qualified in other EU countries within the four months' time limit laid down in EU rules. Two German...
Birkbeck College. University of London The following professorial lectures have been arranged: May 13 at 6pm in the Harkness Hall, Douglas Dunn of the University of St Andrews, "Reaching down for...
University of Wales, Cardiff Ian Hargreaves, editor of the New Statesman, has been appointed professor of journalism. He was previously editor of The Independent (1994-96), deputy editor of The...