Call for central control
A central planning agency is urgently required to make higher education meet the needs of a modern learning society, ministers have been told. The agency should preside over funding incentives and...
A central planning agency is urgently required to make higher education meet the needs of a modern learning society, ministers have been told. The agency should preside over funding incentives and...
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, plans to boost training links between further education colleges and local companies as part of Scotland's strategy following the White Paper on business...
London Business School. Research contracts Dr D. Robertson and P. Morrison, Pounds 249,989 from Higher Education Funding Council for England (fund for development of teaching and learning: a model...
Vision Machines
King's College, London Charities Dr M. Irving, Pounds 173,257 from the Wellcome Trust (coupling between force production and ATP utilisation in skeletal muscle); Professor P. Jenner, Pounds 44,765...
Newcastle, once the setting for postwar urban mismanagement on a grand scale, is nurturing a technology-led revolution in the study of cities and responsive ways to manage their regeneration. Simon...
The Business of Economics
BT is safe for another year, with its contract as the major supplier of the SuperJanet academic network extended till March 1998. But in Australia it was a different story as the country's vice...
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
Martin Harris and John Howells take issue with Douglas Hague's warning that the information superhighway may bypass universities Douglas Hague's "Knowledge goes out to market" ( THES, May 24) offers...
Tony Tysome reports on the shake-up of senior civil servants at the Department For Education and Employment. Gillian Shephard's "dream come true" - the Department For Education and Employment -...
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
When further education colleges were told, after incorporation, to hone their performance, few envisaged chasing so many moving goalposts. It must come as little comfort that their cheerleaders are...
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...