The United Kingdom is defying the international norm by increasing research and development expenditure, according to statistics produced by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is considering "limited protection" for departments which are unique in Scotland or whose subject is considered vital. The council has already warned...
(Photograph) - Double vision: Colleagues have presented Harold Hankins, who retires at the end of this month after 12 years as principal and vice chancellor of UMIST, with a portrait of himself by...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's 24 latest quality assessments have yielded one excellent, one unsatisfactory, 13 highly satisfactories and nine satisfactories, compared to self...
Queens University has attacked an MP's claim that Northern Ireland school leavers are being forced to go to mainland universities because their places are being taken by students from the Irish...
"Well, Sarge, I was proceeding in a westerly direction down Green Street when I was struck by this matrix management theory." This might seem an unlikely storyline for ITV's police soap The Bill, but...
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
(Photograph) - Spin doctors: Lynn Ross, course tutor on Arran for Strathclyde University's senior studies institute, fingers Scotland's contribution to a weaving project for the United Nations fourth...
The Department for Education and Employment has launched a Pounds 1 million training initiative to help small firms. Groups of ten or more companies are being invited to bid for awards of up to...
The National Union of Students' women's campaign group is set to clash with the Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir over racial, lesbian and gay and women's issues at a rally in...
History departments are abandoning broad-based degrees in favour of ones with more local, socio-cultural and modern courses, according to a survey of 53 universities. The survey, published in History...
Exeter University is pushing ahead with its plans for a Cornwall campus despite the cap on higher education expansion. The project's steering group this week announced a shortlist of 12 sites,...
The "golden triangle" of London, Oxford and Cambridge has lived up to its title in the latest cash allocations announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for 1995/96. The...
Sex education in schools does not encourage young people to have sex, according to a report in tomorrow's British Medical Journal. London University medical researchers found that men and women whose...
The Further Education Funding Council has inspected 12 colleges reported for weaknesses in their curriculum. The inspectorate said significant improvements were found in all but one inspection....