Roger Lane tells Tim Cornwell how murder rates in the United States reveal historical trends Homicide is history, argues Roger Lane, and, just like history, repeats itself. Modern murder rates in the...
The growing trend towards adventure holidays will literally leap out of this world and into space in the not too distant future. David Wade looks ahead Tourism takes many forms, whether it be jumping...
It is not the done thing for a law lecturer to take his department to court, but Asif Qureshi has dared to do just that. Alison Utley reports It is one thing for, say, a geographer to challenge his...
The British believe they bade a graceful goodbye to empire. But Peter Marshall (left) discerns weakness behind the grace, while Patrick French reveals how Britain relied on espionage to prop up its...
The British believe they bade a graceful goodbye to empire. But Peter Marshall (left) discerns weakness behind the grace, while Patrick French reveals how Britain relied on espionage to prop up its...
Dashed hopes or a real way forward? By and large Dearing is welcomed by the HE sector which just hopes the Government implements it DOUGLAS TRAINER President of the National Union of Students Dearing...
Ivan, a 26-year-old ecologist from Moscow State University, has 12 months to go before he is safe from military service. By managing to stay in higher education since the age of 18 he has avoided...
THE European Union is helping reconstruct Somalian higher education, ravaged by civil war. Sigurd Illing, EU special envoy to Somalia, says that for six years there has been nothing beyond basic...
(Photograph) - Morris Holbrook, professor of marketing at New York's Columbia University, handed glasses to his audience at an academy of marketing conference held by Manchester Metropolitan...
Lawrence Freedman, head of war studies at King's College, London, has been appointed by the prime minister to write the official history of the 1981 Falklands Campaign.
28 per cent of students leaving Cambridge University with a first degree got first-class honours. 16 per cent of students leaving Oxford University with a first degree got first-class honours. 1 per...
CAMBRIDGE and Birmingham universities have refused to be audited by quality watchdogs. They have told the Higher Education Quality Council that they think plans to check their quality monitoring are...
Most regions met Dearing's proposals with enthusiasm. Chris Humphries, director of policy and strategy at the Training and Enterprise National Council, was keen that universities get in bed with...
Evelyn Ebsworth, vice chancellor and warden of Durham University, said: "The idea of more funds following students is one that has been floated by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals for...
BUFFER bodies separating the Government from higher education institutions in funding matters must be maintained for the sake of university autonomy, says the report. The committee places so much...