(Photograph) - Here's looking at you, kids: koalas are worth Aus$1.1 billion (Pounds 490 million) each year to the Australian economy and generate about 9,000 jobs, research reveals. Clive Hamilton...
AUSTRALIAN universities are under fire for discriminating against women and minority groups. The president of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board, Chris Puplick, said that universities and...
ADULT education is seen as the poor relation of higher education in both industrialised and developing countries despite its importance to economic growth, delegates to the fifth Unesco conference on...
FOR THE first time in the history of France's public research institutes, a woman has been appointed to the top job. Particle physicist Catherine Brechignac has been appointed by the new leftwing...
A group of academics from the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and Israel are founding an international postgraduate institute in Rome with the financial backing of a prominent businessman...
CLAIMS that changes to Romania's education laws undermine the status of Romanian as the state language have been dismissed by Virgil Petrescu, the education minister. All students in Romania will...
Sinking the unthinkable: ministers confess NUS lobbying sidelined Dearing's plans Ministers have admitted that they made a deal with the National Union of Students to soften key funding options put...
PERHAPS it was the effect of taking higher education out of party politics for so long. Whatever the reason, David Blunkett's commons statement on the Dearing Report was a distinctly subdued affair...
IT WAS left to higher and further education minister Baroness Blackstone to fill in the details and justify the Government's controversial departure on funding from the Dearing report. The baroness,...
* Institute for Learning and Teaching The institute will accredit training programmes for higher education teachers; commission research and development in learning and teaching practices, and...
A NEW "compact" between the main stakeholders in higher education - the Government, students and their families, employers and institutions - is the guiding principle behind Sir Ron Dearing's funding...
University of Bristol DSc: Alice Stewart, professor of medicine, in recognition of her life-long pioneering work on the prevention of cancer. University of Reading DLitt: Gert Kaiser, rector of...
THE GOVERNMENT's alternative plans for funding, announced at almost the same time as the details of Dearing's report, would "build" on Dearing's preferred option, education secretary David Blunkett...
FIRST-YEAR students facing tuition bills may have to add Pounds 500 for a basic portable computer. Dearing expects that by 2005/6 all students will need their own portable computer (Rec 46)....
SOME departments and institutions are to be encouraged to opt out of the research assessment exercise in a bid to halt the "devaluation" of teaching in higher education. The report says too many...