The last of the gorillas
A Hull University scientist is travelling to a remote area on the borders of Southern Uganda and Rwanda in an attempt to preserve the habitat of the world's largest population of mountain gorillas....
A Hull University scientist is travelling to a remote area on the borders of Southern Uganda and Rwanda in an attempt to preserve the habitat of the world's largest population of mountain gorillas....
Social work's main training body is to toughen up knowledge and performance criteria on professional courses. A final draft of proposals for a more rigorous social work diploma has been endorsed by...
Statisticians at the University of Salford have developed a model of the spread of Aids which questions official estimates of its future in the United Kingdom. If correct, the findings indicate that...
Graduate schools would provide postgraduates at provincial universities with a stimulating intellectual atmosphere, says the only full-time employee at Southampton's new Arts Research and Graduate...
Hull University has launched a postgraduate medical school in collaboration with the local medical profession. It aims to focus on research and health care to benefit the local population. The school...
Radical reform is imminent for Dutch higher education. Jon Henley weighs up the pros and cons and talks to Roderick Lyall, who has just taken up a chair of English literature at Amsterdam's Free...
Radical reform is imminent for Dutch higher education. Jon Henley weighs up the pros and cons and talks to Roderick Lyall, who has just taken up a chair of English literature at Amsterdam's Free...
When Sir John Daniel applied for the post of vice chancellor of the Open University in 1990 he was not an obvious choice. Although he had taught at the OU in the summer of 1972, he did not expect the...
A court ruling striking down a scholarship programme for black students at the University of Maryland is sending shock waves through higher education in the United States. The Benjamin Banneker...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the University of Virginia denying funds to a Christian magazine run by students. The case will be watched closely as it will show how the Court...
Salaries of college presidents at public colleges and universities are publicly available in the United States, but private institutions can get away with being more secretive. That may change,...
Scientists carrying out research into what goes on behind our taste buds will soon have their very own "European Centre for Taste and Ingestion", in France's gastronomic heartland of Burgundy. The...
An open letter to Anthea Millett, the first chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency. Dear Anthea -- May I offer you a warm welcome to a seat that will be either hot or pleasant depending...
Students at one of Ireland's smallest colleges, Letter-kenny College, Donegal, have discovered the complex side effects of changing their drinking venue. The decision to transfer student discos and...
Is Britain's liberal and secular academic tradition coming under fire? It would appear so. Last week, there were stories that an Islamic fundamentalist party, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, had been stirring up...