(Photograph) - Robodon: machines may become more intelligent than man, says Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Accompanied by his thinking dwarf robots, Professor Warwick...
EVIDENCE that undergraduate teaching is being damaged by the powerful research culture of British universities is emerging from new studies. Ian McNay, head of the centre for higher education...
MORE money could be drained from further education on top of the crippling cuts to next year's budgets after a ruling by the European Court of Justice. It could mean that organisations, including...
MORE emphasis must be placed on the education and training of young doctors in their year of transition from provisional to full registration, says a report by the General Medical Council. The New...
UNIONS at Inverness College were yesterday lobbying the board of management against cuts which they claim will see one in six staff lose their jobs, three outlying sites axed, and the curriculum...
THE UNITED Kingdom's national libraries should join forces to ensure a more efficient system of collecting published works, according to the British Library. The library says it is no longer possible...
A WAVE of industrial action is spreading through further education as colleges prepare to bite the bullet on funding cuts. Staff at more than a dozen colleges are taking industrial action, according...
FORMER Stoke-on-Trent College boss Neil Preston faces accusations of bullying, serious misconduct and wilful neglect of his duties in a damning governors' report. It says that Mr Preston was fired...
LECTURERS at Yeovil College have passed a vote of no confidence in principal Richard Atkins and are set to strike over new contracts. Natfhe members are angry at the imposition of the contracts by Mr...
The United Nations convention on the rights of the child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world. But intention and reality do not always coincide. The UN has criticised the United...
A feud between two overseas education providers has been condemned by the British Council as "very bad for British education", writes Phil Baty. Alastair Somerville Ford, chief executive of the...
Queen's University, Belfast, has become embroiled in a row after cancelling a Freemason's dinner. Members of the two reported Masonic lodges at Queen's claim they have been "scapegoated" by the...
STAFF at Ulster University Business School have accused the university of denying them basic employment rights after attempts to implement new contracts for all fixed-term contract staff, writes Phil...
CRIES for help to Gamblers Anonymous in the Northwest have risen by 61 per cent since the National Lottery started in November 1994, according to a study at Manchester Metropolitan University. Ken...
IS THE popularity of body piercing merely the latest fashion or does it represent, as some sociologists believe, something more sinister? Once the preserve of pop stars and fairground workers, body...