Britain at risk of botching its ABC The above is an extract from a story read by Susie, a child taught by the "real books" method. Real-books teachers are taught that children can "discover" how our...
The data for the nine league tables published last week were used by The Times to produce its consolidated "league table" according to its own criteria. The THES did not select those included.
Iris Kemp, a former casual worker featured in last week's THES, is employed by the University of Hull and not by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.
University teachers criticised the proposed Institute of Learning and Teaching at a regional consultation last week. The criticism follows a paper from the '94 group of universities which described...
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: 2.4 million students were at further education colleges in England, 3 per cent fewer than in 1996 73 per cent of students on...
The University of Central Lancashire, not Lancaster University, should have been listed in the "Top Institutions in 70 Subjects" table under Communication, Cultural and Media Studies.
(Photograph) - Students at Liverpool John Moores University sit next to a statue of Grand National winner Red Rum at Aintree Race course, waiting to take exams at a new conference centre on site....
(Photograph) - Stephen Lewis has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to study conservation techniques in several European cathedral cities. He is currently working on the medieval Dean's Eye...
Trinity College, Dublin Honorary fellowships were awarded to: Seamus Heaney, poet laureate; Mary McAleese, president of Ireland, former law lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Fellowships:...
University of Manchester Robert Hawkins, professor of oncology at the University of Bristol, has been appointed to the Cancer Research Campaign chair of medical oncology from July 1. The following...
AN EXCLUSIVE international club of ten "innovative" universities is preparing for a smash-and-grab raid on European funding pots. The European Consortium of Innovative Universities, whose members...
UNIVERSITY chiefs met the Treasury this week to back calls for cash in the spending review with details on value for money provided by an efficient higher education sector. A team from the Committee...
Professional Association of Teachers Kay Driver, deputy general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, has been elected general secretary. University of Strathclyde The title emeritus...
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports The Private Member's Bill gets its second reading in the House of Lords in June. It is expected...
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports  ST MARK AND ST JOHN The College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth has sacked two long-serving...