A House of Lords committee this week gave the thumbs-up to the genetic modification of crops, saying the potential benefits outweighed the risks. It calls for a committee to ensure firm environment...
The first of a new breed of university "hothouses" for the commercial exploitation of biomedical research went into operation at Manchester University this week. The Pounds 12 million "incubator",...
Landmark plans to professionalise teaching in further education colleges could be scuppered by apathy and a lack of cash. Ministers are expected to herald one of the biggest quality improvement...
The further education sector is being used as a model of best practice in a major inquiry into the future of our public services. Researchers at the Institute of Public Policy Research believe that...
Scotland's further education colleges last year combated government cuts by raising more than Pounds 132 million in external funds, a rise of 6.5 per cent on the previous year. The first Scottish...
The Association of Scottish Colleges has hailed Robert Beattie chairman of the newly launched Scottish Further Education Funding Council, as an "enthusiastic champion" of the sector following his...
The Royal Institute of British Architects is proposing the biggest shake-up of architecture degree courses in decades. The present five years of training are to be split into undergraduate and...
The University of Cambridge has become the latest to add its name to a growing list of institutions keen to attract a new kind of mature medical student. The university this week confirmed it will be...
The media group Pearson has created a management education business and appointed a new managing director to run it. The business will combine the distance-learning management education programmes...
One hundred people are to take part in a year-long project run by Lancaster University to determine how the millennium bugwill affect people's lives in the run-up to December 31. A random selection...
AUT and CVCP discuss copyright to avoid future disputes About 200 amendments have been filed so far to a European directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, which could...
Loughborough College of Art and Design faced perhaps its greatest creative challenge last year: a merger with its neighbour university. The move, which took three years from conception to completion...
Academics need to decide on copyright before they start research to avoid a rising tide of disputes, the Association of University Teachers has warned. The union is in talks with the Committee of...
Almost a year into its work, the Independent Review of Higher Education Pay and Conditions, led by Sir Michael Bett, has no fixed finish date. Harriet Swain reports on what it has been doing It is...
An 8,000-year-old submerged forest on the north coast of the Isle of Wight is helping scientists predict the effects of climate change. At the foot of Bouldnor Cliff, also underwater, are root...