More turn to teaching, TTA head says
More people are changing career and turning to teaching, said Ralph Tabberer, head of the Teacher Training Agency. The first 500 graduate teacher programme places that became available at the start...
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Blunkett talks the talk on world English
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett this week used his Ashridge lecture to urge business leaders to make full use of the competitive advantage of the English language. English was &...
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Security fears cast doubt over lab plan
A pioneering neuroscience research centre at Cambridge University could be scuppered by fears of animal rights activism. Cambridgeshire Police and Girton College have raised serious objections...
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Students clock up Pounds 21m in unpaid fees
Universities were owed £21 million in unpaid tuition fees after the second year of student contributions, according to a survey by vice-chancellors. By July 2000, last year's students owed...
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Labour reveals 90,000 have benefited from New Deal
Almost 90,000 people have entered full-time education and training courses under the government's New Deal for the unemployed, according to latest figures, writes Phil Baty. Employment minister Tessa...
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Brown adds to inequality
Oxford admissions tutors fear that state school pupils may be deterred from applying to the university following chancellor Gordon Brown's remarks over the Laura Spence case, according to a new poll...
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Undergraduate applications to Oxford
Total undergraduate applications to Oxford are up 2.2 per cent on last year, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Applications to Cambridge are down by 7.4 per...
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The heat is on, warn climate experts
The UK can expect more floods but lower winter fuel bills as a result of global warming, according to an EU-funded report from the University of East Anglia. The report, edited by Martin Parry,...
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Caracas
University teaching and administrative staff are this week due to join a national teachers' strike in protest against salary scales and employment conditions recently approved by the national...
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Latest international news
Kazak students defy president At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order, triggered by...
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Eyewitness
Swaziland's main underground opposition party has warned that this will be a month of mass action against the government of King Mswati III. Renewed unrest over lack of democracy stems from anger at...
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Greece in for a shake-up
As Greece grapples with reform of secondary schools, higher education has become a constitutional issue, writes Katharine Sarikakis The public debate in Greece about reforms in secondary schools and...
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Paris
More than 40 ministers of higher education from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting today in Paris to adopt a declaration opening the way for university and scientific cooperation...
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Strasbourg
The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on Italy and the European Commission to end long-running job discrimination against foreign-language lecturers working in Italian universities...
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Bratislava
The Romanies of Slovakia have begun a campaign for a World Romany University to be established in Kosice in eastern Slovakia. The International Romany Union is seeking financial aid packages from the...