Bad for you - "low-paid, unsafe, and in extreme cases, dangerous" I am not saying students should not work. I am saying students should not have to work. For many, part-time study while continuing to...
Good for you - "experience working with others, preparing for a career" The reality is that most students are already working their way through university. With the contraction of the student grant...
James Dick, 22, is a fourth-year geography student at Glasgow University. He works as a waiter 20-24 hours over four nights a week. He earnsPounds 4 per hour. James Dick replied to a window...
Kevin Warwick is experimenting with new relationships between man and machines. Harriet Swain visited the man with a chip in his arm You never know," says Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at...
Julie Hill is paralysed from the waist down. Yet with the aid of researchers from University College London she is cycling with her family again. Tim Perkins describes the work Eight years ago Julie...
Is it really ethical to ask an Alzheimer's sufferer to take part in scientific research? asks Alison Goddard Five years ago David Edmonds realised that his father, Ronald, was suffering from...
Who will shine in 1999? In the first of a series, Harriet Swain meets the English academics' English academic Old battles over literary theory are passe. Today's issues exercising the minds of...
Andrew Davies created a cult university satire and adapted Vanity Fair for the BBC. He talks to John Davies about his transition from academic to screen writer Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Moll...
John Davies, the thinking person's previewer, scans the schedules for you. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Fifty years ago, on December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
A row has erupted in France over the 1999 national census plans to include a sample survey on the ethnic origin of respondents. The National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute, which organises...
A lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology could have sustained permanent eye damage after a student used a laser pointer during a lecture. The university said...
The website (www.ncwe.com) for the National Centre for Work Experience is not up and running. Any readers wanting its booklet on what employers expect students to learn from work experience should...
Nurses are not carrying on Pay is at the top of the nursing agenda, and the annual Review Body, chaired by former Oxford Brookes University vice-chancellor Clive Booth, is taking evidence. The Royal...
Phil Baty joins a driving instructor and decorator on an access course to teaching Like the group of adult learners she is taking today for an access to higher education seminar, Helen Deane, 37, has...
Nurses are not carrying on The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is investing Pounds 500,000 in its education review, which could, with government approval,...