Bishkek
Staff and students at Kyrgyzstan's 39 higher and 52 further education establishments have "virtually unanimously" nominated president Askar Akayev as a candidate for the presidential elections in...
Search
-
-
Accountants battle to retain training duties
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales launched a new training qualification this week in a bid to prevent major UK companies moving their student training to its counterpart...
-
Nuffield to host talks on patenting ethics
The ethical and legal issues raised by the patenting of gene sequences and proteins will be explored in a series of roundtable discussions staged by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The meetings...
-
Scientist tracks crabs with fake limpets
Scientists have a new weapon in their efforts to study the struggle for survival on Britain's shoreline - a wax limpet. Richard Thompson, a marine ecologist at the University of Southampton, created...
-
Graduates find jobs faster
Of 259,749 graduates in 1999 whose destination was known, 66 per cent went straight into work, compared with 63 per cent in 1998, according to data released this week by the ÌÇÐÄVlog...
-
Access spells a scramble for places
School-leavers will face tougher competition for university places as access to higher education is widened, a member of the Commons select committee on education warned this week. Gordon Marsden,...
-
Masked avenger
(Photograph) - An Indonesian student protester looks up during a demonstration in Jakarta against former President Suharto, who is on trial for corruption. The ex dictator is charged with stealing $...
-
Tory shadow says former polys have 'lost their way'
New universities may be driven back to their polytechnic roots under radical Conservative plans to privatise higher education institutions. In a remarkably candid interview with The THES, shadow...
-
Breaches of health and safety lead to national guidelines
A "flippant" approach to health and safety by some university researchers has prompted the first ever national guidelines for institutions. The Health and Safety Executive is due to publish...
-
Call for 'the happiest days' to be made a little happier
A psychologist has called on higher education institutions to tackle the "taboo" of student loneliness as a new academic year begins. Meg Barker, a lecturer at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of...
-
Call for more research into first year university students
Bill Johnston, coordinator for Strathclyde University's centre for academic practice, called for more research into the experience of first-year students. Mr Johnston said North American institutions...
-
Red tape holds up cash for studies
The launch of the new national Individual Learning Account system this week has been marred by red tape, college heads say. Would-be students trying to apply for an ILA to gain course fee discounts...
-
Victory in battle for women's payparity
A woman lecturer who was paid less than her male colleagues has won Pounds 10,000 compensation from De Montfort University to settle a sex discrimination claim. In a landmark case, supported by both...
-
Strike vote over rigid job loss attitude
Hundreds of lecturers and managers at Sheffield College have voted for an indefinite strike in protest against threatened compulsory redundancies. Union leaders said a ballot last week found that 87...
-
Union calls for workers' rights
Universities have the worst track record when it comes to evading new laws on workers' rights, the Trades Union Congress will hear next week. The Association of University Teachers, which will lead...