A comparison of more than 400 university students has found that males and females adopt radically different learning styles. The results have important implications for the success of students which...
Scottish education minister Helen Liddell is set to win Pounds 15 million for Scottish higher education from the rest of the United Kingdom in the wake of student support changes. Mrs Liddell,...
As Iraq heads for confrontation with the UN, Susannah Hall and David Olafimihan meet the academics who have to teach with ancient computers and no internet Walking into one of the computer labs in...
On the anniversary of the death of poet Wilfred Owen, Phil White and Natasha Loder report on a remarkable digital archive that enriches his work in the context of the Great War There is no danger...
Support from the wife The appointment of David Gibson, principal of City College, Manchester, prompted one college principal to remark: "I am more proud of him than ever. I think he will be just...
Sir Roger Penrose, 67, emeritus Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University, and Bernard Crick, 68, chairman of the government's commission on citizenship in schools and author of George...
A man said to have held every major office except prime minister - "the best prime minister we never had" - and founder of a "third route" political party, the Social Democrats, long before Tony...
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
Indian economist and Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, who has been giving lectures at the University of Bologna, has complained of having to cancel a recent scheduled visit to Italy owing to the...
Protests, disruptions, a student boycott and senate censure followed the decision to make 41 academics redundant at South Africa's University of the Western Cape, forcing a two-week postponement of...
Portugal will spend 26 per cent more on research next year. Some Esc43,800 million (Pounds 162 million)will be available for science in 1999 compared with Esc34,700 million in 1998, according to...
Russia's deputy education minister has resigned in a policy clash with his new boss, whom he criticised for being too pro-Communist. Alexander Asmolov, a psychology professor, left within days of the...
American physicists working on the international thermonuclear experimental (ITER) reactor in Garching, Germany, and Naka, Japan, are packing their bags and returning home. The United States has...
Dushanbe. Tajikistan's education minister Munira Inoyatova is taking the Heinz approach to post-civil war reforms: 57 different types of curriculum are being introduced throughout the small Central...
New Delhi. The Indian government has dropped a proposal that would have diluted the constitutional right of religious minorities to run education institutions after its allies joined the opposition...