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THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides details of news, features and books in this week's newspaper. The latest Synthesis charts trends in higher education. Job advertisements appear on THESIS...
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides details of news, features and books in this week's newspaper. The latest Synthesis charts trends in higher education. Job advertisements appear on THESIS...
What do pupils in their early teens know about universities and higher education? Quite a lot, according to new research by the University of Southampton's centre for research in education marketing...
(Photograph) - Home from home: 200 new University of Humberside students fell on their feet last week when they arrived at university to find their accommodation unfinished. Instead the university is...
Richard Page, minister for small businesses at the Department of Trade and Industry, this week announced a competition to encourage business awareness among biological science students. The...
The Imperial Cancer Research Fund has joined forces with Dundee University and the Dundee Teaching Hospitals' NHS Trust to set up a centre of excellence in cancer treatment. A chair in medical...
"Nowhere in the world is there a system for dealing with major accidents after the second day," says Gary Coleman, director of a new World Health Organisation clearing house for major chemical...
Safety procedures are under review at the University of Wales, Swansea, following the conviction of Paul Hickson, the university's former assistant director of physical education, for rape and...
The Aberdeen Research Consortium has won a partial victory in its battle against the loss of the Torry Food Science Laboratory, due to be relocated to York as part of the Ministry of Agriculture's...
Vouchers would be issued to school-leavers to pay flat-rate tuition fees in higher education under radical proposals drawn up by the Conservatives, Fee bands would be axed and local authorities...
"New, young" Labour swept over "old" Labour on further and higher education policies at its party conference in Brighton this week. Battle was joined on the conference floor over a composite motion...
The first steps towards forming a single quality body, ordered last month by Education and Employment secretary Gillian Shephard, were taken this week as the major players met in London. The Quality...
University of Liverpool plans to halve the size of its governing body are ill- judged and may have repercussions on other institutions, according to university teachers. Liverpool's plans, endorsed...
A Government decision to allow "all competent suppliers" to bid for research council funds now spent in universities has been criticised by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals as...
(Photograph) - Gillian Shephard this week launched the Further Education Development Agency which replaces the discarded the Further Education Unit and the Staff College. She called FEDA's three year...
Complexity theory guru or great British eccentric? Lucy Hodges meets Stuart Kauffman who simulates the origins of life on a computer As a Marshall scholar at Oxford in the early 1960s, Stuart...