Disabled get raw deal from film world
Cinema presents twisted and stereotyped views of the real lives of disabled people, according to Paul Darke's research at Warwick University. Mr Darke, a postgraduate researcher in the department of...
Cinema presents twisted and stereotyped views of the real lives of disabled people, according to Paul Darke's research at Warwick University. Mr Darke, a postgraduate researcher in the department of...
The expensive and hazardous business of repairing steel bridges could become a lot safer and cheaper with the help of robot technology developed by the defence industry for the remote disposal of...
Five hundred years ago, music played an important part in the newly founded Aberdeen University, with the establishment of the "Vicars Choral" to sing in King's College Chapel. Three years ago, the...
Many further education colleges are failing to provide engineering employers with enough tailored training courses to cover the specific skills firms need, according to the Engineer Training...
Local education authorities and universities are complaining that their attempts to crack down on fraudulent grant applications are being penalised by Government policy. They want the Government to...
Conservative MPs have been warned they could shoot themselves in the foot if they try to end the right of students to vote in the constituency where they study. The expansion of higher education has...
Scotland's three further education organisations have joined together to create a single voice for the sector. The Employers' Association, the Association for Colleges Scotland and the Association...
Aisling Irwin reports on a research ship which scientists hope will unlock some secrets from the ocean floor. The strangely shaped JOIDES Resolution, a floating laboratory and ocean drilling rig in...
Blue lasers, the holy grail of laser technology, could revolutionise information technology and compact disc technology, according to physicists and industrial re-searchers meeting at Heriot-Watt...
New school-centred initial teacher training schemes have made a "mixed start" and will need to improve to reach the same standard as existing higher education-based courses, inspectors said this week...
Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, then, for the social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork. The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads...
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This week's Final Word comes from a conspicuous 19th-century American author of Norwegian descent: "The advantage of the accredited locutions lies in their reputability; they are reputable because...
Peter Stead on Norman Mailer's The Presidential Papers. In 1965 I laid out six shillings for a Corgi paperback that was to determine the chief fascination of my professional life. It was a volume of...
Andrew Marvell - Joseph Conrad - Doris Lessing - William Hazlitt. Introduction by Michael Foot - John Clare - William Golding - Ian McEwan - Walter Pater - Angela Carter - The Sensation Novel - John...