Yeltsin is 'dead duck'
President Yeltsin is a "dead duck president" says Matthew Wyman, who is researching elections and electoral change in Russia for Keele University's European Research Centre. It is unlikely that the...
President Yeltsin is a "dead duck president" says Matthew Wyman, who is researching elections and electoral change in Russia for Keele University's European Research Centre. It is unlikely that the...
The Scottish Office Education Department has postponed its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers following lack of support from schools. College of education staff fear that the scheme,...
(Photograph) - Top brass: The University College Salford's brass band is currently in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a two-week concert tour in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cultura Inglesa, an...
Masonry, the use of brickwork and stonework, was once a skilled art. Today, brick and stone block are invariably flat faced and dull. But the art of the mason could be revived, thanks to work at the...
Fifty-five per cent more students were enrolled in higher education in Wales in 1993/94 than in 1989/90, according to the Further and Higher Education Statistics recently published by the Welsh...
Between October 1993 and April this year the Further Education Funding Council adjudicated on 17 complaints relating to the quality of education at various colleges around the country. Grievances...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has earmarked Pounds 300,000 for guides to encourage and support women in science, engineering and technology, backed by pilot projects to develop good...
A blueprint for a high-tech university, with students working largely from home instead of on a traditional campus, is being commissioned to help meet the outstanding lack of higher education...
Now Hull University is set to tackle one of the few remaining higher education wildernesses in the United Kingdom with the development of a University of the Moors for north Yorkshire. Although the...
A new breed of "designer" rice, so productive that it could make a significant dent in Third-World food problems, is being developed by scientists in the United Kingdom and the Philippines....
There is rather less of George Bain than there used to be - three-and-a-half stone less to be precise, after a highly successful slimming campaign by the principal of London Business School. But the...
Colleges exceeded their own student growth projections between 1992/93 and 1993/94, according to Further Education Funding Council figures released this week. Overall there has been a 6 per cent...
College lecturers who refuse to abandon local authority working conditions are under attack in two disputes between employers and unions that are seen as test cases for the survival of Silver Book...
This week's Final Word comes from an author who, 21 years ago, did nothing to help assuage the anxiety of nervous seaside swimmers: "The fish faded from view. But, kept from sinking into the deep by...
Lynne Segal on Carole Vance's Pleasure and Danger . Flat on my back in 1984 (having ruptured a disc during peaceful - if richly fantasmagoric - slumber), I read a collection of essays which helped to...