The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The THES examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
Charles Leadbeater warns academics that ministers view them as insular and irrelevant A gulf of distrust and mutual misapprehension has opened up between the government and intellectuals in recent...
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...
A prospectus for British Aerospace's "virtual university" should emerge in the late spring and the venture is on schedule for launch late this year, says its vice-chancellor Geraldine Kenney-Wallace...
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. THE POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...
University of Armageddon Over-enthusiastic recruitment has swollen Armageddon's new intake. Administrative strategy last year was directed at slimming the salary bill to release funds for new...
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HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Corporation of London Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science...
Third in our summer series on education at at century's end, David Melville precicts a seamless post-16 learning environment. Greater challenges lie ahead for further education, and for post-16...
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...