* Education research costs millions of pounds a year, yet politicians and teachers seem to find little in the results, says Brunel University's Alan Smithers. Criticising education research at the...
LORD Pearson of Rannoch (Conservative): Former commerce and industry representative on the now defunct Council for National Academic Awards. Ofsted said that Lord Pearson's comments in a Lords debate...
TWO AUSTRIAN graduates are working with Holocaust survivors in Britain as part of their compulsory national service. In place of serving eight months in the armed forces at 18, Martin Pletersek and...
A shake-up of architecture education and training is urgently needed to meet the demands of the 21st century, according to Chris Colbourne, director of education at the Royal Institute of British...
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Chickens and crocodiles have more in common than previously thought, say...
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds The early atmosphere could have contained much greater concentrations of...
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Human beings could be better at detecting lies than polygraphs, but husbands...
Some are just cold fish, others are hot strategists but all salmon have different personalities that affect how they hunt for food, writes Julia Hinde. Researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow...
TROUBLED Glasgow Caledonian University has lost a senior manager in a wave of early retirements. Brian Fraser, senior assistant principal with responsibility for human resources and the university's...
OUTSIDE the principality itself, there is a distinct danger that next week's Welsh referendum will be seen merely as a tailpiece to yesterday's Scottish poll. That order of precedence and perception...
A LEADING training organisation is suing the Further Education Funding Council for England over Pounds 3.2 million in unpaid bills for franchised courses. CRT Group plc claims it earned the money for...
Whether it is watching river flows, cash flows or linguistic flow, the three subjects below are attracting students ACCOUNTING graduates appear a little unloved. First, accountancy firms say they...
Whether it is watching river flows, cash flows or linguistic flow, the three subjects below are attracting students NO ONE in the United Kingdom studies for a single honours in African languages, but...
Whether it is watching river flows, cash flows or linguistic flow, the three subjects below are attracting students GEOGRAPHY straddles the boundaries between science, social science and arts. It is...
AN ASSISTANT professor at Cassino University in southern Italy has come under fire for heading an exam commission which examined her own son. Lia Santucci teaches geometry at the engineering...