Chile first for satellite
Chile's first satellite, built and designed by engineers at Surrey University, was launched into space from a site in Russia earlier this week. Ed Milton, general manager of the University's Surrey...
Chile's first satellite, built and designed by engineers at Surrey University, was launched into space from a site in Russia earlier this week. Ed Milton, general manager of the University's Surrey...
Talented graduates are the target of a Pounds 500,000 initiative to find attractive career opportunities for them in County Durham and stop the brain drain from the north. Research commissioned by...
Teenagers should study logic and rhetoric as part of a new baccalaureate-style diploma, the Association of University and College Lecturers has proposed. The union says A levels should be replaced...
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that very little has improved in the conditions for mental health patients in London over the past year. Paul Lelliott, director of the Royal College of...
The University of Greenwich has earmarked Pounds 50,000 to introduce Pounds 250 tax-free scholarships for all its undergraduate courses this year. The "Millennium" awards will be presented to...
Glasgow Caledonian University this week opened a Pounds 4 million financial services centre, funded by a partnership with Britannia Life, which provided a Pounds 2 million loan.
Keith Robbins, vice chancellor of Lampeter, will become senior vice chancellor of the University of Wales today. He will serve for three years and chair many of the federal university's committees,...
Strathclyde University is aiming for the cutting edge of research with an appeal for industrial partners to develop ways of testing stab-proof vests. The department of mechanical engineering, which...
The famous rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is healing - and it is happening in Colchester, according to one of the joint holders of the country's first chair in Jungian analysis. The...
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A summer school for inner-city, state-educated, ethnic minority pupils - with little or no post-16 education - was held at Cambridge University last week. Twenty pupils from schools in London and the...
The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest research charity, has delayed the announcement of plans to control intellectual property rights following an outcry from universities. The charity was to...
A merger looks certain to take place next year between the two rival bodies representing the further education sector. The boards of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum will...
Vice chancellors are to oppose plans to fine universities up to Pounds 100,000 each if they miss deadlines for sending data to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The penalty is being...
During the past few years there has been a discernible shift in popular attitudes towards the social sciences, accelerated by government consultations about national competitiveness and technology...