The regional development agencies should have clear powers to influence further and higher education provision, members of the House of Commons Employment Sub-Committee said this week. Taking oral...
The A-level performance of Welsh college students improved perceptibly last year but still trails its school counterpart. The school and college information booklets for 1997, issued this week by the...
Photography. The way we conceptualise pictures, the media's use of disturbing images, and surreal selling THE CURIOSITY and puzzlement that greeted the arrival of photography is being examined as...
Photography. The way we conceptualise pictures, the media's use of disturbing images, and surreal selling WESTERN society has plundered the once anti-establishment surrealist ideology to produce...
Wastage and female enrolment are the main trends in the latest OECD education reports, says Mary Boland Britain has one of the lowest student drop-out rates among members of the Organisation for...
Wastage and female enrolment are the main trends in the latest OECD education reports, says Mary Boland This year's report provides a more complete picture of higher education in OECD member...
FOR THREE years Michelle Fernandez watched as her compatriots at one of the most selective private universities in the United States sat in judgement on its applicants in an admissions process...
THE NUMBER of Indian students turning to the United Kingdom for higher education is picking up after a slump in the 1980s with the introduction of full-cost tuition fees for overseas students. But...
European Union funding has helped the University of Ulster and computing company ICL to set up a venture to promote economic regeneration in Belfast. Synergy Centres will participate in community...
Student mobility grants supported by European money are expected to be increased following an agreement by the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers to give the...
SPEAKING Klingon, the fictitious language used by the Star Trek characters of the same name, has become a growing worldwide activity, according to one Montreal linguist. First spoken by enemy...
TWO of Australia's biggest universities have formed a strategic alliance that has startled the higher education world and will be closely watched, and possibly copied, elsewhere. Melbourne and Monash...
PRIME minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has promised Russia's space programme an extra $267 million in 1998 to retain "national prestige". He is also halving the number of space firms and banned the use...
SWEDISH universities are braced for a management shakeup that will strengthen the government's grip on top posts in the new year. Legislation comes into force on January 1 that will alter the boards...
THE ONE passenger train a day into Umea arrives at 7.30am, having taken more than 11 hours for the 885 km north from Stockholm. But this is no Swedish backwoods. More than 100,000 people live in "the...