Brussels, 24 Oct 2002 Full text of Document 3647/02 Council Register
Clarke to assess HE timetable over next few days New education secretary Charles Clarke today acknowledged that higher education was a "potentially controversial" area for the government and...
Cambridge denies plan to charge top-up fees The vice-chancellor of Cambridge University yesterday sought to stop speculation that Britain's top colleges were all secretly preparing detailed plans to...
Human Rights Watch has called on US president George W. Bush to use this week's summit with Chinese president Jiang Zemin to press for the release of historian Xu Zerong. He was jailed earlier this...
The world's first lecturer in veterinary physiotherapy has been appointed by the Royal Veterinary College. Tracy Crook, 40, who has been a practitioner in physiotherapy for dogs and horses for the...
Edinburgh University library is lending two priceless Islamic art manuscripts to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exhibition on "The Legacy of Genghis Khan". Rashid al-Din's History of...
The Oxford one-to-one tutorial is being eroded to allow academics more time to do research. Group seminars of up to ten students have already replaced some tutorials in economics and are being...
Bristol University has been given an AA credit rating by Standard & Poor's, the international ratings agency. It is the highest rating yet among UK universities. Institutions seek ratings to...
The future of the University of London is in doubt after King's College London announced it plans to seek its own degree-awarding powers. The move came after King's learnt of the proposed merger...
Imperial's plans for fees and merger with UCL spur protest and strategy talks A campaign against top-up fees gathered momentum this week, with MPs, trade unions and even the odd celebrity raising...
A row over job contracts is rocking London Metropolitan University, formed from the merger of London Guildhall University and the University of North London two months ago, writes Alison Goddard....
Huddersfield University could be dissolved within two years to make way for a new university serving West and South Yorkshire. Huddersfield announced on Wednesday that it was entering detailed merger...
Despite the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, academics throughout Ireland are under great pressure to make cross-border cooperation a reality. Malcolm Skilbeck, former deputy director for...
Ulster University has pulled out of the Springvale project to build a "peaceline campus" in north and west Belfast because the private-finance initiative faces a multimillion-pound shortfall. But a...
Northern Ireland's peace process has been driven forward by politicians' lies and manipulation, and the discovery of this is undermining public trust in politics, according to Ulster University...