MPs attacked education department permanent secretary Michael Bichard for his department's "disgraceful" failure to predict growth in further education. At a meeting of the Public Accounts Select...
(Photograph) - Double take: Performing arts students from New College, Durham, rehearse Bertolt Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, which they performed last weekend at the Newcastle...
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia The institute awarded the 1998 Bower Prize in Science to Martin Rees, astronomer royal of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
Medical education is preparing for a revolution that may never happen. Julia Hinde reports Medical academics met in London this week to discuss how best to expand medical education following a recent...
Medical education is preparing for a revolution that may never happen. Julia Hinde reports Universities must submit costings for expanding medical education to the Higher Education Funding Councils...
University of Wales, Cardiff Sioned Davies is to be the first female professor of Welsh.She will also be head of thedepartment of Welsh, succeeding Glyn Jones. University of Manchester Promotional...
University College London Chris Llewellyn Smith, professor and director general of CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), will succeed Derek Roberts as provost on April 1, 1999....
Royal Society of Edinburgh The following have been elected honorary fellows: James Mirrlees, joint Nobel prize-winner for economics in 1996, professor of political economy at Cambridge University;...
Harriet Swain looks at the candidates vying to be president at next week's NUS conference This year's National Union of Students annual conference, which starts on Monday, is a historic occasion. It...
EMPLOYERS still do not like General National Vocational Qualifications, research by the Institute of Directors has found. While 80 per cent of employers deemed A levels to be important in assessing...
Medical education is preparing for a revolution that may never happen. Julia Hinde reports London's St George's Hospital Medical School this week took its case for Britain's first fast-track medical...
THES reporters on the British Psychological Society's annual conference held in Brighton this week OVERSEAS students in Britain are highly motivated and feel more in control of their lives than home...
Vice-chancellors respond to Nolan on student complaints AN INDEPENDENT check is needed on university's internal systems for handling student complaints, vice-chancellors have agreed. A university's...
* 12 per cent of male, first-degree graduates over the age of 25 were unemployed six months after graduating * 9 per cent of female first-degree graduates over 25 were jobless * Among under 25-year-...
THES reporters on the British Psychological Society's annual conference held in Brighton this week FOSTER care placements are in serious jeopardy because of an explosive mismatch of children's ages,...