Director makes job U-turn
Southampton Institute is seeking redundancies just days after director David Leyland, publicly assured staff that their jobs were safe. The U-turn comes as the institute's Natfhe branch released a...
Southampton Institute is seeking redundancies just days after director David Leyland, publicly assured staff that their jobs were safe. The U-turn comes as the institute's Natfhe branch released a...
The Government's Technology Foresight programme must be tailored to Scottish needs, according to a discussion meeting of industrialists and academics organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh....
The Association of University Teachers is to ask staff with expertise to monitor European programmes and report back to the Commission on their effectiveness. The move follows an AUT seminar on...
(Photograph) - Mistress carpenter: Filiz Civale-Uyar, an MA graduate from the Visual and Islamic Arts Department of the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, shows off carvings inspired by...
A Pounds 10 million bioinformatics research programme, innovation as a business process and the interaction of genetics and environment in determining health are among the initiatives the six...
End of an era at the Open University, with the passing of the final cohort of students on the Personality, development and learning option in the school of education. With no mention of Hans Eysenck...
The latest celebrations for Aberdeen University's quincentenary involved sponsored teams on the peak of each of the 7 Munros (Scottish mountains more than 3,000 feet) last month. On the same day, a...
Labour's higher education spokesman Bryan Davies was pleased to find no sign of the high life some used to associate with the Student Loans Company - although he came away from a recent visit feeling...
Higher Education As An Aid to Sporting Behaviour No 2: Jeff Tarango, the American tennis player who self-destructed so spectacularly on court at Wimbledon, was formerly a student at Stanford...
Dundee University is searching for a postgraduate native Gaelic speaker to salvage its project to develop a Gaelic-speaking computer. Dundee's MicroCentre, world famous for its communication systems...
Are you a retired officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary? How about whiling away those idle hours by doing a spot of lifelong learning in East London. There, in the heart of Docklands, you can feel...
Chris Masters has fanned the flames of traditional emnity between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The two cities were bitter rivals for the recent title of City of Architecture, and Dr Masters, chairman of...
John Barnes, Ken Minogue, Pat Dunleavy, George Jones, several hundred exceedingly bright students . . . the London School of Economics list of those with specialist political expertise, some with...
A new university's analysis of student drop-out rates suggests the reasons are more varied and complex than simply student hardship. Financial problems were the main factors cited by the Committee of...
City and Islington College became the first inner London FE college to sign a local agreement with staff this week. As well as giving set weekly and annual teaching hours, the contract takes in broad...