Further education colleges are struggling to meet the demands of chancellor Gordon Brown's vision of a "high-skill economy", researchers claimed this week. Many colleges have been unable to adjust...
The dispute between further education employers and unions over contracts, which hit its seventh anniversary this week, is over. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe agreed at an emergency weekend...
All but 4 per cent of colleges will get more funding next year in one of the best ever further education funding settlements. Provisional funding allocations for 1999-2000 released this week by the...
Loughborough University plans to attract Pounds 100 million of engineering research over the next ten years with its multimillion research and teaching complex. Construction of the Pounds 14.3...
An industrial tribunal has condemned Glasgow University's grievance procedures as "unfair by any standard of natural justice". Librarian Metta MacLeod brought a sex discrimination case against the...
Car buyers could have customised cars delivered in three days thanks to a Pounds 1.5 million project just launched by the universities of Cardiff and Bath and leading car makers and associations. The...
More than half of Britain's major employers think degree standards are falling, while just a tenth think they are improving, a national study has found. In some sectors, such as civil engineering, up...
As Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam struggles to set up Ulster's assembly, Noel McAdam and Olga Wojtas examine higher education's contribution to the fragile peace. Northern Ireland's two...
The introduction of the national minimum wage next month will boost the pay of nearly two million employees by an average of 30 per cent, according to a study out this week. The study by David...
About 100 students have been occupying a building at Goldsmiths College, London, since last Friday in protest against the university's threat to expel eight students for refusing to pay tuition fees...
Scottish and Welsh students may have more power devolved to them under plans to reform the National Union of Students. Reform will be one of the main motions being discussed at the union's annual...
The story declaring that opposition from the Standing Conference of Principals has scuppered the formation of an over-arching British Higher Education Council is not based on any position held by...
Whether memetics ("The forget meme not theory", THES, February 26) is a serious academic discipline or only an intellectual contagion can be debated. What is certain is that it was only the word "...
As a non-expert, the idea of memes seems essentially sterile - it does not tell us anything that is not obvious to start with. In fact, the BIDS Institute for Scientific Information science citation...
The notion that ideas concatenate into neat parcels that are "transmitted" in the "frighteningly simple" way Susan Blackmore describes is absurd. It is bizarre to think that "tunes, ideas, catch-...