Planning a multimedia production? Roy Stringer (below) presents an original approach to nonlinear thinking, and colleague Charlotte Corke offers a guide to working successfully with multimedia...
Raising cash is already a problem for higher education's quality watchdog, just a month after it was set up. Delays in the transfer of resources to the Quality Assurance Agency could mean its...
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers TRAINING "ONE OF the Government's first priorities," said minister for employment Andrew Smith, "will be...
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers DEVOLUTION Henry McLeish is Scottish Office minister for home affairs and devolution, responsible for steering...
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers SCIENCE EVEN BEFORE John Battle was named science minister, British scientists were lobbying the new Government...
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers QUALITY AND STANDARDS THE NEW Government will inherit near-perfect conditions for taking control of standards...
Boulder, Colorado, a quiet college town of river walks and stunning views of the Rocky mountains, was licking its wounds this week after a series of student riots. Thirty-five people were arrested...
A NEW era of collaboration and mergers in higher education has begun, vice chancellors said this week. The University of Bath, one of the UK's top research universities, and the University of the...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an anthropologist who died at Prague airport: "A new ideal was born, or...
ESTELLE MORRIS: UNDER SECRETARY FOR SCHOOLS THE OTHER schools minister is ex-teacher Estelle Morris, also 44. After capturing Birmingham Yardley from the Tories in 1992, she held off a strong LibDem...
ANDREW SMITH: MINISTER FOR EMPLOYMENT AND DISABILITY RIGHTS FIVE YEARS ago Andrew Smith was hoping for a ministerial post in the Department for Education and Science. Then he was thwarted by the 1992...
EUROPE is in crisis over job creation. Long-term and youth unemployment are areas where education is seen as a key factor in improving the sad statistics: five million people aged 16 to 25 are...
TONY WORTHINGTON, NORTHERN IRELAND EDUCATION MINISTER TONY WORTHINGTON, 55, MP for Clydebank and Milngavie since 1987, takes on responsibility for education, the training and employment agency,...
STEVE BYERS: MINISTER FOR SCHOOL STANDARDS FAST-RISING Blairite Steve Byers, 44, an education and employment spokesman in Labour's shadow team, becomes Minister for School Standards. A former law...
E. Stina Lyon on Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma. In 1962 1 arrived at a US university as a scholarship student from Sweden. One of the first courses I signed up for was entitled 'The Negro in...