GEOGRAPHICALLY isolated universities may be losing out in the race for students as the introduction of tuition fees accelerates the trend for study close to home. Dave Croot, lecturer in geography at...
The introduction of tuition fees may result in a more elitist university system with the old universities becoming the preserve of privately educated students, warned Michael Bradford, professor of...
TUITION fees look likely to sharpen debate on whether Britain has a two-tier higher education system based on wealth and social class, writes Alan Thomson. All universities will have to charge and...
MORE than half of the young people thinking of applying to university say scrapping the maintenance grant will make them more likely to stay away, according to a survey by Wolverhampton University....
UNIVERSITY libraries heavily used by researchers from other institutions should be compensated for the cost of providing the service, according to a report by Coopers and Lybrand. Based on a survey...
(Photograph) - Anongkarat Unyawong, a Thai student at the University of Central England, shows the work with which she won a competition to design the Eurovision Song Contest Trophy for 1998.
MEDICAL students are urging the government to rethink plans for tuition fees so future doctors are not saddled with greater debts than most other students. The British Medical Association medical...
NEW universities are calling for more of their annual funding up front amid fears that the introduction of tuition fees will cause serious cash flow problems. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
SCIENTISTS are creating a life-size model of a human head to help assess the effect of mobile phones on the brain. Teams from Bristol and Bradford universities are working with museum artists to...
WOMEN are less likely to take up dangerous sports like motor racing because of the psychological effects of the negative attitudes of male rivals, a researcher has found. Judy Eaton, a psychologist...
(Photograph) - Winners of the 1997 New Engineering Graduate prizes. Jacqueline Grigg (left), Rachel Oates, Gillian Kirby and Johanna Marples. Lesley Ashburner and Natasha Hird also won prizes but are...
Employment insecurity in Britain is rife despite evidence that job tenure has changed little in the past 20 years, according to research from Cardiff Business School. "Feelings of insecurity do not...
CARTILAGE erosion and its role on joint disease is under study at Edinburgh University thanks to a Pounds 100,000 grant from the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. Cartilage, an essential component of...
FISH stocks in the Third World could improve using an African tradition of trapping them using artificial reefs made of sticks, according to Stirling University researchers. Malcolm Beveridge, Donald...
EUROPEAN marine biologists met last week in Southampton Oceanography Centre to pool their knowledge and expertise on artificial reef design and development. The 50-strong group, known as the European...