The International Union of Students, largely moribund since the fall of communism, is seeking to re-establish itself with a call for a global day of student action in support of public education to...
Taking a modern apprenticeship has raised 21-year-old Sarah Baxter's career aspirations from a good job behind the bar to a management position at Yates's Wine Lodge in Liverpool. Though she said the...
Conservative plans to scrap student tuition fees and halt university expansion are wrong, while the government's top-up fees policy is a step in the right direction, according to the UK's leading...
There's water, water everywhere at Southampton University, from sailing on the Solent to the world-class oceanography centre. But not a drop to drink this week as the UK headed towards the hottest...
Creationists should stick to discourse on religion and leave the peppered moth to get on with evolution, says Michael Majerus We biologists in Britain have long felt superior to some of our US...
'At four my daughter was the perfect surrealist... To this day, the cat still has bits of wax in its fur from where she tried to use it to polish the floor' "Every columnist has to do a travel story...
Monday First day at Avinashilingam Women's University, India, where I am a visiting lecturer for two weeks as part of a British Council exchange. Appropriately, the university is in the town of...
The latest entrant for the worst acronym in academe competition has just arrived, courtesy of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Provoking reminiscences of The Diary's schooling - when...
Dog owners driven desperate by howling and whining on car journeys are being sought for a project aimed at calming down agitated pets. A team led by Daniel Mills, director of the animal behaviour...
Here's a recipe for confusion served up by the Swansea Institute. It has appointed a new dean of humanities, Ken Jones, to replace the previous dean, who retired recently, also named Ken Jones. Mind...
It sounds like something out of the "Uday and Qusay Hussein Handbook on Public Administration". A declaration that students of a particular background shall henceforth pay high charges devised by a...
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