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(Photograph) - Book this space: A-level student Carl Palmer, from King Edward VII School in Louth, Lincolnshire, is using his clothing to advertise for sponsors to help him pay fees at the University...
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Points of view
The visual arts in the UK are making a huge business and social impact. Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton puts developments into an international context. The economic argument for supporting cultural...
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Courses for menu-driven TV
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...
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Dreams and machines
Two alumni of the Royal College of Art tell Kam Patel how they use their design expertise in commerce. For car designer Paul Hanstock, the two years spent at the Royal College of Art were an...
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Painting a rosy picture
Royal College of Art graduates are having immense success securing course-related jobs. Kam Patel reports. A survey of students who graduated from Royal College of Art between 1992 and 1996 shows...
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Greed drives market
Boom and bust stock market fluctuations are caused by greedy traders rather than political or economic instability, according to a physicist from the University of Manchester. His research overturns...
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Call for equality
Equal opportunities should become a "mainstream" part of university funding, quality assurance and accreditation, Anne Wright, vice chancellor of Sunderland University has told a women in higher...
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Is the Square Mile colour blind?
A degree from a university in or near the City of London is no passport to a job inside itswalls for graduates from ethnic minorities. Phil Baty reports GRADUATES from London's new universities, on...
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Fuel cells are 'power of the future'
A NEW form of clean and efficient energy could soon be powering hospitals and houses as scientists from Keele University design the energy machines of the future. Fuel cells are revolutionary devices...
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Trial proves new osteoporosis treatment
DRUGS that reduce the risk of women with osteoporosis suffering bone fractures have been successfully trialled by the University of Plymouth. Osteoporosis, which weakens bones, usually occurs after...
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Students urged to go abroad
THENUMBER of young ߣߣÊÓƵns working and studying in the Asia-Pacific region will rise significantly if initiatives gaining support are successful. Powerful voices have spoken out over the past...
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Blunkett launches fees offensive
DAVID BLUNKETT, secretary of state for education and employment, has accused opponents of tuition fees of scare-mongering. In a bid to head off a recruitment crisis, he is preparing to write this...
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Moral influence causing companies to change
ETHICAL investors are starting to use their Pounds 1.5 billion financial clout to push companies to change, and not just to boycott the ethically unsound, a new survey has found. The "Morals and...
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Grant bolsters African chimpanzee study
ST ANDREWS University's groundbreaking study of wild chimpanzees, which aims to discover more about the origins of human intelligence, has been boosted by a Leverhulme Trust grant of Pounds 87,000....
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Engineering misconceptions still dominate
EVEN ten-year-olds are spurning engineering as a career option, because of misconceptions and stereotypes about the sector, according University of Southampton research. Images of dirty and physical...