WELSH colleges have recieved Pounds 3.5 million of the Pounds 13 million they bid for to expand work-orientated education and skills training. About Pounds 3.15 million of the Education for Industry...
Students are being used as human guinea pigs to test pesticides. The Medeval laboratory in Manchester's science park pays students Pounds 600 to test the toxicity of pesticides used in pet flea...
The government is to examine the opportunities for public sector research establishments to increase the commercial exploitation of their work. But union chiefs are concerned that the move will...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is planning a "third leg" of support alongside its funding of research and teaching. It wants to help institutions boost their "professional...
Vice-chancellors have called on the government to redefine student loans so they can be extended to part-timers. Although recently announced changes in accounting rules for student loans were a...
Engineering organisations say government proposals on lifelong learning are pitched too strongly at the lower skills levels and those who do not currently participate in learning, writes Kam Patel....
(Photograph) - Rare antique glass from America, Poland and Sunderland is pieced together in a stained glass window depicting some of Yorkshire's most celebrated structures including the Ribblehead...
"You are to send, at six o'clock this morning, two boats each to the ships named in the Mayfair, for the purpose of conveying them on board the Medusa and Discovery." The order book entry, dated...
Organic farmers tend to be younger, manage smaller farms and rely less on their farms for income than others, an Economic and Social Research Council project has found. They are also more likely to...
The clearest way of assessing universities in the digital age may be found in cyberspace, according to an academic who has conducted a survey of web sites. Martin Dodge, researcher in the Centre for...
RESEARCHERS who perform experiments on live animals are to get access to a European database of alternative techniques, following concerns about the number of animals used. There were 2.64 million...
Research into teaching and learning in higher education could receive a significant boost if plans to include it in the next research assessment exercise go ahead. The Higher Education Funding...
Disgruntled ministers ousted in last week's reshuffle could do worse than step into Margaret Hodge's shoes as chair of the potentially powerful education and employment select committee. After all...
Organisers of a new women's history MA at the University of Essex had a shock last week after a press release designed to boost recruitment landed them with a full page in the Daily Star. The article...
Department of Trade and Industry officials are peeved that higher education minister Baroness Blackstone spilled the beans on the identity of the new science minister. The new science supremo, Lord...