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Nearly three-quarters of unemployed adults on the Government's Training For Work programme were still out of work three months after completing the course, according to Training and Enterprise...
Nearly three-quarters of unemployed adults on the Government's Training For Work programme were still out of work three months after completing the course, according to Training and Enterprise...
A. L. Rowse is 91, but like his fellow nonagenerian Lord Denning, he is never afraid of saying something controversial. Next week, he brings out Historians I Have Known where he attacks (and...
Southampton Institute has cancelled a part-time construction degree, leaving 32 students with no prospect of completing their course and no legal redress. The institute says in its prospectus that it...
(Photograph) - Rockpooling: James Cuttingham, one of 35 academics from nine universities in Georgia, United States, visiting Northumbria University last week on a staff-student exchange arranged by...
University law school heads have condemned proposals for tight restrictions on postgraduate courses for trainee solicitors. A call from Martin Mears, the new president of the Law Society, for a cut...
It had to happen. Borchester, the nearest thing the neverending radio soap The Archers has to the sinful city, now has a university. And it is just the kind of university that fits the dramatic...
Moves that could lead to a merger between the Association of University Teachers and the University Lecturers' Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland are set to be stifled today by the...
Watching the car parks has always been a handy way of tracking who's briefing who. So some interest should be attached to the sighting last week of a coach, billed as being on loan to outsize tenor...
There's nothing like the experiences of post-communist Europe to put British worries into perspective. Asked how the Economic and Social Research Council's new Whitehall Programme will fare should...
Education union leaders displayed a remarkable consensus at a higher education fringe meeting at this week's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Panellists David Triesman of the Association of...
The Calvinist work ethic has nothing on the one at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Eddy Van Avermaet, welcoming delegates to a European adult education conference, praised...
More fodder for the debate on falling academic standards: delegates at a meeting on the art and science of vision last week heard of an experiment on visual perception, published by Logothetis et Al...
At last the truth can be told of the final hours in office of the former higher education minister Tim Boswell. As the storm clouds cleared in the wake of John Major's leadership campaign victory, Mr...
The University of Oxford is famous for its historians, but may soon acquire a short-lived reputation for its futurologists as well. The university's magnificent 1995/96 desk diary is crammed with all...
Sheffield University's newsletter is highlighting a German pub evening, which it explains is intended for anyone interested in the German language or culture, and who wants to exchange ideas, new...