Radical changes ahead for the Kirk
The Church of Scotland's general assembly last month approved proposals for a radical reform of education and training for the ministry. The Kirk is unique in having no seminaries of its own. Its...
The Church of Scotland's general assembly last month approved proposals for a radical reform of education and training for the ministry. The Kirk is unique in having no seminaries of its own. Its...
Computer programs developed at Bangor University to improve dyslexic's linguistic skills are now being used in Romania to teach English to local children. Xavier Educational Software, a small...
The University of Ulster's planned peaceline campus in West Belfast has received a surprise boost from the retail sector. F A Wellworth, one of Northern Ireland's leading chainstores, has announced...
More than 100 students from Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic will gain free placements at United States business schools under a scheme launched last month at the Washington...
Universities and colleges must face up to the blurring of distinctions between part-time and full-time courses, and between undergraduate and postgraduate education, two professors have told Scottish...
(Photograph) - Think ahead: Jon Buck, a design faculty lecturer at the Southampton Institute, was chosen from 150 UK artists to create a sculpture for the exterior of Harlesdon Magistrates Court in...
Scientists plan to drill deep into the ice of the Antarctic to see what the materials deposited four kilometres deep can reveal about sudden changes in climate up to half a million years ago - and...
Sir William Stewart, the Government's chief scientific adviser, retires this week. He talks to Kam Patel. Sir William Stewart's retirement this week as the Government's chief scientific adviser marks...
(Photograph) - Snake charmer: The Cambridge Natural History Society held its annual Conversazione in the department of zoology last week. The 100 exhibitors included local naturalists, schools and...
The shiny new face of further education with its caring nature and liberal outlook is challenged by fresh research that has uncovered a "disturbing" and growing trend towards a harder-edged masculine...
Dental fillings of the future will be custom-built by a computer from porcelain, according to researchers from Liverpool University. They will be tooth-coloured and will last much longer than normal...
A hardship fund for destitute teachers is facing more and more requests for money from new graduates entering the profession. Student loans have been blamed for the sudden upsurge in cries for help...
Terror of the dentist can be cured in 70 per cent of cases by behavioural therapy, according to research at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. And those who make it to the dentist's waiting room...
(Photograph) - Life line: Businessman and conservationist Patrick Roper contemplates the creation of a line of trees along the 0-degrees longitude Greenwich meridian, running from north Humberside...
Scotland's further education unions are demanding to see a report into the troubled Borders College after a Government inquiry dismissed allegations of mismanagement. Staff last year passed a vote of...