Welsh schools and colleges may soon be offering a single overarching 16-19 certificate linking vocational and traditional education courses, writes Huw Richards. This week's Welsh Office white paper...
Universities will be urged to adopt the best schoolteachers as associate professors and fellows, and to work with them in "laboratory schools" in a bid to raise school standards, writes Phil Baty....
CATHOLIC students have been targeted in a "hate" campaign as tensions rise in Northern Ireland. A number of Queen's University undergraduates and student nurses are seeking to move after leaflets...
A NEW blow has been struck in the battle of minds between continental and analytical philosophers with the founding of the first Society for European Philosophy. More than 100 people met at Warwick...
(Photograph) - AGAINST THE ODDS: A Bradford University student who had a brush with death is this week celebrating the degree she thought she would never get. Linguist Amanda Wilson contracted...
Britain may have lost Hong Kong to China, but a new degree of partnership is developing between the nations. Middlesex University has started interviewing for its new five-year degree in traditional...
For centuries European folklore has said that sage improves the memory. Now clinical trials are to get under way to test this and to find out if sage could be used in the treatment of illnesses such...
As the world gets smaller and science continues to push back the frontiers, scientists find themselves working in ever greater extremes. As researchers in Montserrat have discovered, being in the...
DRUGS to slow down the ageing process could be available within 20 years, according to University of Sunderland researchers. Members of the university's molecular gerontology team believe they are on...
FACT: The risk of premature death increases significantly for people living in a rented home without a car. Reason: Unknown. Assumptions that car and home ownership are merely markers of middle-class...
FEW MEN feel able to grieve properly following a miscarriage, scientists at Teesside University have found in one of the first studies of the subject. John Puddifoot and Martin Johnson, who...
SUSSEX University scientists are putting trees to the ultimate test in a bid to discover whether they can offer a solution to global warming. Working with six other institutions from Europe, the...
DISABLED football fans are getting a better deal from the game because of improvements to grounds over the past five years, researchers have found. A survey of 1,200 supporters with disabilities,...
A NEW musical instrument may help people with special needs express themselves in mucic and dance. Researchers at Reading University believe. The "Sound=Space" system uses sensors to pick up...
France's national audit office has criticised the system of rewarding researchers for dis- coveries made in public research institutes. After investigations in four main institutes including the...