New admissions procedures where students apply to university once they have their A-level results would be "unworkable", bring few benefits to applicants or universities and seriously cut staff...
Higher education fee vouchers should be introduced and universities should be allowed to charge more for some courses, vice-chancellors said this week. They argued that such steps are necessary to...
Thailand's Ministry of University Affairs has called on British politicians and education leaders to broker more partnerships between Thai and British higher education institutions, writes Tony...
Police are keeping a close watch on students, intellectuals and the grave of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang to prevent public commemorations of the tenth anniversary of the start of the...
Norway awarded a record number of doctorates in 1998 - 685, compared with 625 in 1997. Mathematics and natural sciences accounted for 29 per cent of theses in 1998. The proportion awarded to women...
Soldiers have clashed with students at the University of Konkon in Guinea over the death of a chemistry student knocked down while shopping by a taxi driver. When students allegedly destroyed the...
Three medical professors at the University of Milan have been arrested on fraud and corruption charges in connection with consultancy work at an exclusive private teaching hospital, the San Raffaele...
Lax industrial safety practices are a dire legacy for the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In the remote Siberian town of Uysol Sibirskoe, the Chemprom chemical plant is...
MOSCOW Managers of a Pounds 4 million British government scheme to help universities design and implement new courses to speed democratic, economic and social reform in the former Soviet Union are...
Digital technology is remoulding the aesthetic process - but maybe not for the best. Kathryn Jackson reports Think of quilt-making, and you think of a group of women sitting around a kitchen table,...
A CD-Rom produced by National Air Traffic Services, gives an exhaustive view of working life in the world's busiest airports, using a custom-built interface, video clips and sound. It is aimed at...
Stephen Quigley celebrates the creation of the first working stored-program computer "May 6th 1949. Machine in operation for first time. Printed a table of squares (0-99), time for programme 2 mins,...
Many university computing managers remain unwilling to switch from Microsoft applications to Lotus or Corel software, though a JISC technology applications subcommittee report has said the sector...
A high-tech software system pioneered by the University of St Andrews that enables academics with no special computer skills to manage groups of students and learning resources is to be extended to...
The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association is to award a travel bursary to promote closer links between its members in British departments and abroad. The object of the award of...