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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...