Beyond their ken
Michael Moss, Glasgow University's archivist, drew a parallel in a recent lecture between medical education 200 years ago, when Glasgow Royal Infirmary was founded, and current proposed reforms. In...
Michael Moss, Glasgow University's archivist, drew a parallel in a recent lecture between medical education 200 years ago, when Glasgow Royal Infirmary was founded, and current proposed reforms. In...
Even worse than the scorpions in Oxford are the students. A three-man crime wave from Oxford was abruptly stopped by a police siege recently. Trouble was, when the police finally rounded up the...
The maxim that there is no such thing as bad publicity seems to be in vogue at the Natural Environment Res-earch Council, as anyone who has just turned to June in the NERC calendar has seen. Pin-up...
The Higher Education Funding Council submitted its proposals for a single quality assurance agency to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, this week amid hopes that agreement had at...
The latest graduates' council magazine from Dundee University includes tributes to John Berridge, who has retired from the department of political science and social policy. One sounds rather...
(Photograph) - Sleek Greek: Dimitris Katsanis, a Plymouth University engineering student, puts his revolutionary racing-bike frame through its paces. The lightweight cross-frame construction he...
Further education could soon have its own quality assurance framework to replace the confusing array of requirements now in force. Fran Hulbert, national project director and regional education...
London Guildhall University, which was found to have unlawfully victimised a black senior law lecturer last month, has set up an inquiry into "possible breaches" of its equal opportunities policy....
University research departments receiving the new five-star grade in next year's Research Assessment Exercise should not expect any extra funding for achieving the highest accolade. Five-star...
Research at Edinburgh University has found that one in every four rugby players were injured in a single season, with the tackle most often associated with injuries. Michael Garroway of Edinburgh's...
Eleven bids from higher education institutions to run a summer teaching semester were made by the closing date last Friday. A decision on which go ahead will be made at the Higher Education Funding...
The Confederation of British Industry is backing a training league table for employers. The table would set out the record of individual businesses on training investment, as a way of stopping the...
Medical students should not be able to qualify without a clear understanding of their legal obligations, according to Sandy Macara, chairman of the British Medical Association council. Dr Macara,...
Bold action is needed to reform overspecialised vocational, technical and higher education in Eastern Europe, according to the World Bank in its first overall review of education since 1980....
Small businesses in Yorkshire and Humberside are to benefit from Pounds 2 million awarded to Leeds Metropolitan University for its Company Associates Partnership Scheme. The university said it was on...