In Great Britain we have very powerful political parties and a very powerful executive. I am concerned that any second chamber should be able to limit the executive. I was amazed that the government...
I was minded to resign originally because we were all so upset at the way things happened last Wednesday. Feelings were running high and a lot of people were talking about resigning. But I was...
YES says Peter Younie, bursar of an Oxford College This year the family of every first-year student in this country became potentially liable to pay Pounds 1,000 towards the cost of their university...
NO say rebel students Alice Nash and Kate Atkinson We are two students who have decided to withhold our payment of the Pounds 1,000 tuition fee in protest against the Education Act. We can afford the...
Laura Cowell is 13. She has cystic fibrosis and relies on a daily cocktail of up to 70 drugs. Her future depends on drugs developed on animals. "She lives today because of the drugs she gets,"...
The Animal Rights Militia has threatened to kill ten researchers if animal rights activist Barry Horne, on hunger strike demanding a Royal Commission on animal experimentation, dies. As The THES went...
Employers are upgrading to graduate level jobs held until recently by people with subdegree qualifications, says a report published this week. A study by consultants Business Strategies has found...
* The convocation of Queen's University Belfast has backed a motion calling for a "detailed and careful reconsideration" of plans to restructure the university. A meeting attended by more than 250...
* National Vocational Qualifications have failed to herald the promised revolution in training, MPs heard this week. The House of Commons Education and Employment Committee, taking evidence for its...
A national campaign has been launched against a proposed European copyright law that threatens to seriously restrict access to information. The Library Association, the Consumers' Association, the...
Only 15 per cent of media graduates gain jobs in the media, although 70 per cent of them find some kind of employment in the UK, with around 2 per cent working abroad and 11 per cent believed to be...
Cloning humans for reproductive purposes was rejected this week by a joint report from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Genetics Advisory Committee, but they have left...
* The blueprint for the Foresight programme's next round will be published next week. A second round of Link awards is also expected to be launched.
(Photograph) - Viv Gee, tutor for Strathclyde University's stand-up comedy course, listens as Arnold Rabinowitz rehearses his end-of-course performance. Photograph: Tom Finnie/Atom.
Academics at the London School of Economics have backed down on a proposal to increase tuition fees for some postgraduates by 30 per cent. Members of the school's academic planning and resources...