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Volume I of the Foresight saga is published and we shall soon see how the Government intends to move forward. A report to be published later this month by the Office of Science and Technology,...
Volume I of the Foresight saga is published and we shall soon see how the Government intends to move forward. A report to be published later this month by the Office of Science and Technology,...
Officials at Japan's top universities are warning students to be wary of the recruiting activities of the nation's growing number of religious cults. The warnings come at the start of a new academic...
Another case of a student lying to gain admission to an Ivy League College - this time a student who fabricated his scores to get into Yale - is causing further soul-searching in colleges and...
Germany's Fachhochschule teachers are demanding more involvement in research and development activities but critics warn this could damage an advantage they have over the universities - shorter study...
Moldova is the latest former Communist state to be affected by a serious loss of key scientists and academics tempted to go abroad by better salaries and research facilities. A senior Moldovan...
The loophole which allows Russian graduates to avoid military conscription is closing fast. State Duma deputies (members of Russia's lower house) have overwhelmingly backed a new law extending...
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
The quango charged with introducing vocational qualifications has rejected claims by a Lords Government spokesman that the GNVQ for manufacturing has been poorly targeted. Lord Lucas, Government...
Students at the University of East Anglia are planning to launch a blistering attack on the institution's record for environmental management and responsibility. Josh Busby, student union environment...
The success of student tutoring schemes is very easy to measure in one way. Five years ago there were just four schemes, helped with BP cash, sending students in to local schools as tutors. Now there...
International investment bankers, consultants and academics from all over the world converged on Bradford in April to discuss ways to make social and economic development projects more effective, to...
Queen's University of Belfast's ruling body has performed an almost impossible political feat as a row over dropping the national anthem at graduation ceremonies rages on. The university senate...
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is urgently drawing up a series of town and country planning guidelines to cope with potential conflicts thatcould be caused by the need for new...
A major conference next week on the social and economic implications of information and communications technologies will hear that there is little evidence of the rapid growth in electronic...
(Photograph) - Making a splash: Michela Smith, lecturer in sports psychology at Luton University shows her skills as a water polo player. Ms Smith is a member of the Great Britain water polo team...