Theft charge
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
(Photograph) - Spin doctors: Lynn Ross, course tutor on Arran for Strathclyde University's senior studies institute, fingers Scotland's contribution to a weaving project for the United Nations fourth...
The Department for Education and Employment has launched a Pounds 1 million training initiative to help small firms. Groups of ten or more companies are being invited to bid for awards of up to...
The National Union of Students' women's campaign group is set to clash with the Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir over racial, lesbian and gay and women's issues at a rally in...
History departments are abandoning broad-based degrees in favour of ones with more local, socio-cultural and modern courses, according to a survey of 53 universities. The survey, published in History...
Exeter University is pushing ahead with its plans for a Cornwall campus despite the cap on higher education expansion. The project's steering group this week announced a shortlist of 12 sites,...
The "golden triangle" of London, Oxford and Cambridge has lived up to its title in the latest cash allocations announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for 1995/96. The...
Sex education in schools does not encourage young people to have sex, according to a report in tomorrow's British Medical Journal. London University medical researchers found that men and women whose...
The Further Education Funding Council has inspected 12 colleges reported for weaknesses in their curriculum. The inspectorate said significant improvements were found in all but one inspection....
A global further and higher education virtual college with open access for everyone and driven by student demand was unveiled this week as the National Union of Students' vision for learning in the...
A further education lecturer's High Court victory over pension rights may bring "copycat" claims costing colleges thousands of pounds, lawyers warned this week, Tony Tysome writes. The court's ruling...
(Photograph) - Waterworks: Students Louise King (front) and Marsha Skinns from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester practise at Rydal Water during this year's Lake District Summer Music...
University applications via the Internet could be a reality within the next two years, if technology and access advance sufficiently for the needs of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service...
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
This week's Final Word comes from a writer who was active in the Voluntary Euthanasia Society: "Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-...