NATFHE granted leave
NATFHE has been granted leave for a High Court review of the former Government's controversial decision to change teachers' pensions policy. The move is a challenge to former education secretary...
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Psychologists could give help
EDUCATIONAL psychologists could help colleges release the full potential of students with learning difficulties and behavioural problems, according to new research. The Further Education Development...
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Brass bands strike a different note
Three research projects reveal the many roles music can play THE popular perception of the industrial-age community brass band as an undisciplined gaggle of working-class amateurs is a myth,...
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Scotland demands more collaboration
A GOVERNMENT review of Scottish further education funding must foster collaboration rather than "over-vigorous competition", Scottish Office education and industry minister Brian Wilson has warned....
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Unis eye Euro regeneration funds
AS European Union leaders this week thrashed out the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Labour Government proved it could take as firm a stand as its predecessor when it felt its interests are threatened. But...
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Musicians fight theme-park image
Three research projects reveal the many roles music can play LIVERPOOL - home of The Beatles; New Orleans, jazz capital of the world. Music is the key to the image which attracts foreign tourists to...
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Child leukaemia and infections link examined
EDINBURGH University's public health sciences department is studying the causes of childhood leukaemia. The project will analyse data on diagnosed cases of leukaemia in the hopeof better...
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Jadwiga: patron saint of the university
"The road to the well-being of a state, to its sovereignty and recognition in the world leads through its universities," Pope John Paul II said when, in the final ceremony of his visit to Poland this...
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Long loan allows free ranging
A book borrowed from the library at Harvard University and believed lost has been returned to the stacks - 233 years overdue. The thick, calfskin-covered volume appears to have crossed the Atlantic...
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Military types get cultural grounding
A college in St Petersburg is playing a key role in ensuring that the arms reduction agreements Europe made after the cold war are observed. Rusistika Plus, an independent Russian language school...
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Awards aim to go the distance
The Italian government has launched legislation to create 60,000 means-linked scholarships over the next three years, bringing the total to 120,000. They will add to the existing system of fee...
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'Accidental' shooter on campus
A 30-year-old research assistant at Rome's La Sapienza University, Giovanni Scattone, is being held by police on suspicion of having shot and killed Marta Russo, a 22-year-old law student, as she...
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A scam for art's sake
There is a scam lying at the heart of academe. It implicates many of those involved in university life and threatens to subvert our ideas about the nature of scholarly activity. Almost nobody talks...
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Crystal clear
David Crystal, reviewing The Origin of Language (THES, June 6), complains that I fail to give the sources for extracts from Trench, Muller, Farrar and Charles Darwin. This information is supplied in...
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Bristol in dinosaur bone tussle
Moscow. An international dispute is raging between Russia's leading dinosaur research institute and Bristol University over 30 kilograms of 150 million-year-old fossilised pterodactyl bones. The...