Innkeeping with success
(Photograph) - Innkeeping with success: Alexandria Gardiner and Charles Cole, pupils of the Licensed Victuallers' School and winners of the 1994 William Grant Centenary Awards, start their award's...
(Photograph) - Innkeeping with success: Alexandria Gardiner and Charles Cole, pupils of the Licensed Victuallers' School and winners of the 1994 William Grant Centenary Awards, start their award's...
However inclusive the intended athletic scholarships scheme is, it is unlikely to reproduce some of the academic performances of past university sportsmen. Oxford cricketers in particular appear to...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council recently hosted a celebratory lunch for all those departments which had achieved an excellent rating in its teaching quality assessments. But there has...
Mixed fortunes for distinguished early modern historian Cliff Davies of Wadham College, Oxford. After seeing his daughter Liz on the receiving end of a vicious press campaign following her selection...
While 16 years of Conservative rule have been blamed by some for Britain's brain drain, there is an argument that it has helped keep some pretty useful talent in our universities. John Ramsden, about...
An appeal in Portsmouth University's staff newsletter for a wooden baby's cot has so far not brought any offers of help. But perhaps the purchase of the next item in the classified ads (portable...
Also present at the CVCP party - much Schadenfreude over the fate of civil servants at the newly merged Department for Education and Employment, where there are now more senior civil servants than...
Among the entertainments of the coming academic year should be watching the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals incoming management team of chair Gareth Roberts and chief executive Diana...
How to solve one of the greatest cosmological mysteries - why matter survived to be around today and was not annihilated at the beginning of the universe - has become clearer with research reported...
(Photograph) - Safe sun: Students from Paignton Community College take part in a "Be safe in the sun project" as part of a national pilot for GNVQ health and social care.
Colleges are furious at unexpectedly high bills for their vocational courses after an awarding body said its fees would rise by up to 20 per cent. The decision by the Business & Technology...
Independent research firms are confident that their long battle for access to support from research councils could soon be over. In a report out last week, but finalised several weeks ago, the...
Scotland's largest teaching union has accused the Robert Gordon University of undermining staff confidence and tarnishing its reputation following a settlement deal with a redundant academic. Jack...
A prominent physics professor has called on the visitor of Sussex University to reinstate him to senate after vice chancellor Gordon Conway cut short his term of office. Norman Dombey, pictured right...
The sacked head of a Buckinghamshire adult education centre is to seek reinstatement at an industrial tribunal. Iris Brooksbank claims she was victimised by her employers after offering student...