Mentors count personal costs
Students who mentor disadvantaged young people frequently suffer demoralisation, loss of confidence and feelings of personal failure as a result, research shows. Mentoring is promoted in many of the...
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ITN deal offers archive access
Researchers are to get access to more than 100 years of filmed news coverage thanks to a £10 million deal with ITN. The deal, brokered by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the British...
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DMU gains ear of the Sorbonne
Musicians at De Montfort University are jubilant after signing a research and academic exchange agreement with the Sorbonne in Paris, writes Tony Tysome. The link will bring together the prestigious...
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Merger 'benefits' pose threat to diversity
Valuable characteristics of small and specialist higher education colleges will be lost if such institutions are forced into mergers, a report warns. The 39 higher education institutions in the UK...
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Top-ups will pit costly science against the rest
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why The competition created by the white paper...
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Prospect of English fees spreads fear of hardship
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Scotland The Scots are afraid of the impact that...
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Vice-chancellors see a pay-your-way future as desirable, but students' opposition remains strong
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Bernadette Porter, rector of the University of...
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Pay-your-way future: Exeter
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Exeter University vice-chancellor Steve Smith is...
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Pay-your-way future: Nottingham
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why No one will be surprised to find Nottingham...
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Pay-your-way future: Leeds Met
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Simon Lee, vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan...
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Pay-your-way future: Essex
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Essex University's students have lost patience...
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Lack of specialist teachers 'stifles children's creativity'
A lack of specialist art education in primary schools is stunting the development of children's expressive and creative talents, researchers at Staffordshire University have found. The problem could...
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Hazard taken out of house trends
Buying a house is the biggest financial gamble most people will ever make. A team of academics hopes to take some of the guesswork out of the process by making an advanced house price forecast...
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Scientists add weight to anti-smoking campaign
Dimitris Kotzias, head of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Environment Institute, is leading an initiative to investigate the quality of the air we breathe indoors, writes Martin Ince...
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Euro research boss defends central lab
As the debate rages over the future of research funding in British universities, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has come under attack from those who believe its budget could be...