Plymouth shines beacon
Plymouth College of further education has won a Beacon Award for excellence in science teaching. The college won the biology award for its innovative A-level biology courses run by Peter Belton and...
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Chemists get distance MBA
The Royal Society of Scotland and the University of Strathclyde have teamed up to launch an MSc aimed at helping industrial chemists beef up their management skills. The three-year MSc in chemical...
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Brits reluctant to study abroad
British taxpayers and higher education institutions are paying millions of pounds for the equivalent of a university dedicated wholly to teaching students from other European countries, it emerged...
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London is leading in access stakes
Institutions in the capital are best at attracting students from under-represented groups, according to a funding council study published yesterday. About 37 per cent of young undergraduates at...
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HEFCE to fund 41 projects
Colleges, new universities and institutions based in London have won the lion's share of special funding to improve poor facilities. HEFCE will fund 41 projects totalling Pounds 93 million over the...
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HEFCE launch consultation on proposed fund for good management practice
In a separate initiative, HEFCE this week launched a consultation on its proposed fund for good management practice. The fund, worth Pounds 10 million over the next three years, is intended to...
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Vienna
Students from the University of Pristina in Kosovo who applied earlier this year to study in Vienna fear documents, transcripts and certificates sent for verification in Belgrade have been destroyed...
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Havana
Ten British companies are travelling to this week's UK-Cuba biotechnology seminar, which is aimed at putting British business in touch with Cuban research institutes despite the United States trade...
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Changchun
The 1999 China international education fair will take place in Changchun, the capital of northeastern Jilin province from August 18-21. More than 400 Chinese and overseas universities and secondary...
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Eye witness
Swiss voters are expected to end one of the world's odder macroeconomic anomalies this weekend when a referendum will determine whether the world's richest country finally comes off the gold standard...
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Market forces dictating
Students are moving from historically black to white universities in South Africa, Karen MacGregor writes. When apartheid's walls came tumbling down, the market quickly replaced them in South African...
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Japanese begin job search long before graduating
Sayaka Itakura's priority at the recent start of her final year in Tokyo was to start the laborious process of finding a job. The schedule she has drafted involves reading annual reports, meeting...
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Avoid elections, Belarus warns
Students and lecturers at the University of Mahileu have been warned not to take any part in presidential elections under way in Belarus. Elsewhere in the country, students have been arrested for...
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Changes end cafe culture
"You'll never have university education (in the UK) up to the standard of Austria," said a student reading Dickens in Vienna's Cafe Benno, among companions playing chess and cribbage. "You haven't...
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Fear over Lego-built chairs
The University of Washington was delighted when a big corporation stepped forward to endow a needed $2.5 million faculty chair in occupational orthopaedics. But like an increasing number of schools...