As understanding ofthe 100,000 million galaxies spreading out from each other to fill acontinually expanding space increases, cosmologists are still searching for the mysterious dark matter which is...
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * 52 per cent of students are female, compared with 51 per cent in 1995/96. * 14.2 per cent of enrolments to engineering and...
Unfortunately some of the data on last week's league tables were wrong and some of the subject tables were incomplete. The table of good honours degrees is reprinted on page along with additional...
Students have joined academics in their fight against cuts and job losses Union leaders have condemned proposals to axe over 100 jobs at the University of Exeter, claiming the move will fail to...
(Photograph) - Endurance athletes are losing out to infections, caused by punishing training regimes. But research at Birmingham University could put them on the fast track to recovery. And on the...
Remember Christ's Temptation in the Dessert, a near-winner in the Antithesis howler competition 1996? Once again, exam time means exam howlers aplenty, and the vineyards of Chateau Antithesis are...
Natfhe conference delegates' work was doubled by some well-meaning organiser who had installed an electronic keypad voting system. Delegates were to press one of three buttons to register for,...
CASH from the sale of student debt must be pumped back into universities for the sake of the British economy, vice chancellors have warned ministers. They say quality is at risk unless more money is...
The decline of face-to-face contact in favour of electronic mail has led to widespread digital aggression according to a survey to be released at Staffordshire University next week. More than half...
BRITAIN's first role evaluation scheme for university staff could be sunk at the outset by trade unions which fear that it is little more than a backdoor bid to drive down academic pay. The Higher...
Varsity Funding, a City consortium, is to make Pounds 48 million available to universities for long-term financing of capital projects. The fund is being made available through a bond issue, a long-...
CASH should be diverted away from universities and into further education colleges, Helena Kennedy QC's inquiry into widening access to education is expected to recommend. A month before publication...
The first few shows after a gala opening night are rarely the best. Initial excitement over, the players have to knuckle down to remembering their lines and pacing themselves for the rest of the run...
BRANDON Gough, the chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England for the last four years, is to leave. He will go in July, nine months before the end of his contract. His post will be...
A DECADE of expanding graduate numbers is over, the Spring 1997 Graduate Market Trends survey reveals today. Despite rising employer demand for graduates, the number of first degree new graduates...