Sculptured form
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London
Another sorry tale of commercial values dominating our National Health Service emerged from a report on nursing students published last week. Far from expecting a permanent NHS post on qualifying,...
Full marks to Alan Mills of Leicester University, who does not let being an academic stand in the way of his creativity. His latest idea is a city-wide network of travelators to trundle people around...
And now, a story with a happy ending. A new Strathclyde University graduate, about to be photographed after the ceremony by her proud parents, gave her handbag to her brother. The brother, refusing...
Congratulations to a bunch of particle physicists from 34 institutes who published a major paper on quarks and have now managed to amass one citation for every institution, according to Science Watch...
Inefficient administration can have its benefits. Overheard recently on one South African university campus was the following exchange: "Aren't you worried about compulsory redundancies, given the...
Those pointed jokes about McDonalds' employees who get their posts through clearing are applicable outside Britain as well. Canadian news magazine Maclean's reports that the entire counter staff of...
College enrolment week, which starts on Monday, faces disruption in some parts of the country because of strikes by lecturers over contracts. Lecturers' union Natfhe is co-ordinating the action and...
The academic historian has a new enemy - and rather a sad one, as it should be a natural ally. Nothing in the World History Congress session on imperial archives won more fervent assent than a...
Production quality being one of those things that worries academic and other authors, Canadian publishers DPLU, whose stand at this week's World History Congress at Montreal informed participants...
The number of full-time higher education students in Scottish further education colleges has more than doubled in under five years, according to the Scottish Office . Numbers rose from 9,216 in 1989/...
The Government has warned universities against setting up new foundation courses and filling them with students who have failed their A levels. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...
Students would have to pay some of their course fees under an Pounds 8 billion higher education expansion plan the Liberal Democrat are considering. The party's higher education working group has...
(Photograph) - Blooming hot: Graham Benskin, senior botanic gardener at Leicester University's 16-acre Harold Martin botanic garden, admires pawpaws that have grown to giant proportions in this...
A senior lecturer at Staffordshire University has called medical schools' selection processes into question after his son's four As at A level brought him 20 rejections. Mohammed Al-Mousawi is...