I think the Government got it more right than Sir Ron Dearing. Apparently they have both found in higher education that rare commodity for which demand is perfectly inelastic - we can increase...
For Asians who have great respect for the past, it must be surprising to learn that the number of students taking history at schools and universities has been falling for the past three decades. In...
Fresh evidence of the incomparable glamour of academic life. Management Charter Initiative chief Tom Cannon confides triumphantly that he has finally attained street credibility in the eyes of his...
Professor Cannon isn't the only member of academia's football tendency to have received an accolade recently. Stefan Szymanski of Imperial College, who has applied "company architecture" theories to...
While Britain was agog over the infidelity of foreign secretary Robin Cook, New York has been excited by the far more contested private life of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As with the Cook affair (...
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has signed an agreement with the Bridgeman Art Library in London to sell images of some of its most famous artefacts. Under the three-year arrangement access to the...
SENIOR managers in higher education need a framework for working out the cost of what happens in their institutions, new funding council guidelines state. The guidelines, produced jointly by the...
Hundreds of students at Loughborough University are to be the focus of research exploring "virtual living and learning" in higher education. Project leader Charles Crook said the work would exploit...
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers wants lecturers to set the standards for and run the higher education teaching accreditation scheme recommended in the Dearing report. The AUT's submission to...
A DETAILED, independent financial analysis of the Government's proposals for student funding is urgently needed, according to Sir Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of pharmaceutical giant...
KEY QUESTIONS about short-term cash shortages and university freedom are still awaiting answers post-Dearing, say higher education policy developers. A detailed analysis of Sir Ron Dearing's report...
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The most popular of all degree subjects, business studies, has seen explosive...
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The TV programmes This Life, Kavanagh QC and the usual fare of cops and robbers...
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects PORTUGUESE would appear to be one of the least popular subjects taught at British...
A TOP Egyptian scholar has appealed to academics around the world for help to fight what human rights groups claim is a death sentence on him and his wife. Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid made his plea on the...