(Photograph) - Reaching out: Gary Sloan, programme director, stands outside Queen's University of Belfast's outreach centre in Armagh, which was formally opened by Sir Ron Dearing this week. The...
SIR Stewart Sutherland, principal and vice chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, is to head a study of teacher training to advise the Dearing committee on the contribution made by higher...
STUDENTS face restricted access to the University of London library because of a subscription cash crisis. Subscriptions from constituent colleges and institutes cannot sustain current, let alone...
Conspiracy theorists are beginning to worry that the Scots may have forced Sir Ron Dearing's hand over concerns about standards in higher education. The decision by the Scottish Higher Education...
One might imagine that the Bishop of Ripon had long since outgrown the need to worry about what happens in schools and colleges. The Rt Rev David Young, after all, took a first in maths at Oxford...
George Poste calls on the Dearing inquiry to prioritise research funding Pharmaceuticals is the United Kingdom's most successful industry with a long tradition of pioneering accomplishment in life...
With or without the N, qualifications agency chief executive Nick Tate is one of the few people in British public life who can bask in approval from all political parties. Since Christmas, all the...
"Scientists Beware" thundered a Labour press release faxed to The THES by shadow science spokesman Adam Ingram. Apparently, during last week's Commons debate on prior options, the Government's...
If mad cows are not fatal to the Government, just what else might work instead? An academic pay review body may just be the answer to Tony Blair's dreams as well as those of the Association of...
One former student unlikely to have been deterred by any possible Oxford top-up fee is alumnus to be proud of no 90, the distinctly nobbish insurance fraudster Darius Guppy. Mr Guppy's high moral...
THE MASTER of an Oxford college has accused his university of burying its head in the sand over the future of higher education. Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, sparked controversy this...
THE first further education performance indicators for England show that colleges are recruiting and planning successfully, but many students are dropping out and underachieving. Between 1993/94 and...
(Photograph) - Dramatic deadline: Leicester University is pulling out all the stops to raise Pounds 80,000 by the end of June in order to secure a piece of literary history for the nation. The papers...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has launched a major study of the international standing of research conducted in English universities. Researchers at Leeds University and the...
Pharmaceutical firms are alarmed at the state of the science base. Kam Patal reports on how funds are falling. The pharmaceutical industry is a good barometer of changes in the science base. It...