Civil changes
The civil service, especially its higher echelons, has traditionally been dominated by Oxbridge. But new figures from the Cambridge University careers service show that last year just 1.6 per cent of...
The civil service, especially its higher echelons, has traditionally been dominated by Oxbridge. But new figures from the Cambridge University careers service show that last year just 1.6 per cent of...
The Department of Trade and Industry is supplying Pounds 2.5 million for institutions that want to do feasibility studies and research projects starting in the next three years with European partners...
Applications for higher education are up 1.5 per cent over this time last year, although this increase is accounted for mainly by the growth in overseas students from outside the European Union,...
(Photograph) - Fashion's avengers: Students from the consumer services management degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University model clothes designed by Clare McTurk (second from right) in the...
Thousands of students are facing a limited choice of vocational A levels because most colleges and sixth forms offer the same range of courses, according to a Liberal Democrat survey of approved...
A proposed merger of two examination boards is set to close the gulf between academic and vocational qualifications. The University of London Examinations and Assessment Council and the Business and...
The split among student unions on reform of student financial support widened this week as a group of "moderate" unions spoke of setting up their own consortium to push for reform. Alison Griffin,...
(Photograph) - Focus on the future: Christina Townsend, chief executive of the Business and Technology Education Council looks approvingly at the document proposing a merger with the University of...
This week's Final Word comes from a fantastic mathematician: "Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the aftertime, be herself a grown woman; and how she would...
Fred Inglis on Paul Jenning's The Penguin Pennings . In his wonderful essay "Hymns in a man's life" D. H. Lawrence speaks movingly of the great poems which have given shape to his life; but for all...
Schliemann of Troy
Emerson's Antislavery Writings - Emerson
The Handbook of Child Language
In Retrospect
The Republic of Letters