Do Study Grants Help Refugees Find Jobs? The Education, Training and Employment of African Refugees in Britain. Available from Africa Education Trust, 38 King Street, London WC2 8JS. African refugee...
Quality chiefs have called on the government to reform universities' constitutions to guarantee students access to more rigorous and independent procedures for handling complaints and appeals. The...
Fish living at Swansea University's school of biological sciences are just yards from the Bristol Channel but they have to have sea water delivered by tanker twice a year. However, starting later...
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has received a mixed response to its first allocations to Scotland's 47 further education colleges. The Association of Scottish Colleges praised the 8...
Monday 6am flight from Glasgow to London. Arrive early. By 9am I am watching a band drilling in the crisp, bright air at Horse Guards Parade. Retreat into the Royal Society for the Aventis science...
At the end of the day, the delights of the Northeast and the prospect of studying at one of its seats of learning may not be enough for prospective MA students from Indonesia. So, along with the...
Just months after its arrival in power, Labour was threatening to slash Oxbridge college fees and muttering about the unfairness of institutions with richer-than-average alumni. Now, as Oxford has...
After her ordeal at the hands of an alleged stalker last week, Germaine Greer will perhaps find comfort in the fact that she is the only academic to appear in a list of "women we admire most"...
Describing Labour's selection procedure to choose its candidate for London mayor, Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, said it was "messy and...
Chris Ham, director of the health services management centre at Birmingham University, is joining a new strategy unit set up to advise ministers on the future direction of the National Health Service...
The English Association today inaugurates the Fellowship of the English Association, honouring service to English in education.Founding fellows: Eric Anderson, Lincoln College, Oxford; Malcom Andrew...
London's new mayor will be able to look to a variety of European cities as he considers his approach to the post. One obvious example is Italy, which opted for directly-elected mayors in 1993. Simon...
Morocco is attempting to reform its education system to pull the country into the global economy. Hassan Bouzidi considers the hurdles Consider the following. More than half of Morocco's population...
Representatives of the national federation of university students at Quito's Universidad Central del Ecuador have handed over 11 buses seized by student demonstrators on condition that local police...
The director-general of Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura, has laid the foundation stone of a new university in the northern town of Kara about 500 kilometres from Lome, capital of Togo. Ampa Johnson, vice-...