Specified first destination of undergraduate students by subject, 1995/96 Area of study % unemployed Medicine & Dentistry 0.2% Veterinary Science 1.1% Law 3.8% Subjects Allied to Medicine 3.8...
A college technician was made redundant after 20 years' service because he was active in the trade union, a tribunal decided last week. Lawrence Keen, a Unison steward at Halton College, is now...
Natural Environmental Research Council scientists spelled out the certainties, and the uncertainties, of climate change, to an audience of bankers this week. Richard Cooper, chairman of the...
The University of East Anglia has won a Pounds 14.6 million grant from the National Lottery, double the next largest amount awarded in higher education, to fund its planned Pounds 17.6 million sports...
OXFORD university could face cuts of Pounds 14 million and Cambridge Pounds 9 million as a result of college fee changes announced this week. Oxford and Cambridge each get about Pounds 35 million of...
A row over freedom of speech has erupted at Middlesex University following the "censorship" of an article written by a university governor for the in-house newspaper, North Circular. Governor and...
Universities and colleges will be expected to provide students, employers, and quality watchdogs with clearer descriptions of the content and aims of their courses, under a proposed quality assurance...
(Photograph) - Debbie Murphy vacuums the council chamber at Cardiff University, which will house the Welsh Assembly when it opens in May 1999. Eventually the assembly will have its own building. Vice...
The government wants to hear from universities, research organisations and innovative businesses as it considers how best to stimulate investment in research and development, writes Julia Hinde. In a...
No prizes for guessing what preoccupies Tory students as they come up to National Union of Students conference time. Asked for its position on fees and grants, Conservative Students' chairman Gavin...
The latest edition of Dundee University's alumni publication, GC Magazine, includes a photograph from the archives. "Your grant is in danger" warn the posters displayed at a student work-in held in...
No whingeing here. Instead, The THES celebrates the efforts of the education and employment secretary, David Blunkett, in securing Pounds 160 million from the European Social Fund to fund the...
When Gordon Brown unilaterally announced plans for the UFI at a Labour Party Conference in his days as opposition spokesman for trade and industry, hackles were raised since the party's education...
Though it went largely unmentioned publicly at last weekend's Liberal Democrat spring assembly, the decision to drop the party's recommital motion while the Teaching and Higher Education Bill was in...
Innocent victimhood seems to be in fashion in the Lib Dem education team. Easy winner of any contest to find the most dumbstruck expression of the month would be further and higher education...