(Photograph) - Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland have produced a CD-ROM which stars a lifesize reconstruction of Robert the Bruce, who defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314. Iain...
VAT REGULATIONS and other "unnecessary and intrusive" rules and financial constraints on universities should be scrapped, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has told the Dearing inquiry...
PRIVATE higher education could absorb rising student numbers without increasing the Government's education budget burden and without excluding students unable to pay tuition fees, a key private...
Students doing voluntary work may soon be able to gain a certificate recognising the skills they have gained. Scadu is pioneering the idea in eight student groups in early February. It hopes...
THE ROYAL Society has told the Dearing inquiry into higher education that a teaching and learning council should be created to encourage innovative, high-quality teaching in universities, writes Kam...
* A long-term study of graduate destinations has been submitted to the Dearing inquiry to help it make better estimates of graduate supply and demand, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain McNicoll, professor of...
Imperial College, London, and Warwick University have come out in front of Oxford and Cambridge in a national competition for research equipment funding. Imperial was the biggest winner with five...
While Labour leader Tony Blair was telling the Big Issue magazine his views on getting beggars off the streets, one of the magazine's vendors was putting his words into practice. Andy Loughe, who has...
The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England is preparing to balance difficult funding decisions for the next academic year against the financial impact of the research assessment exercise. After...
Improved social support networks and the introduction of skills training could help academics cope better with stress, according to a stress expert, writes Chris Johnston. Susan Cartwright, a senior...
ACADEMICS and publishers are set to lock horns over the precise meaning of fair dealing as it relates to copyrighted material published and accessed electronically. Authors wish to define the scope...
"I can't see a bigger issue than genetic science and its ethical implications now that the cold war is over." So says Nottingham University vice chancellor Sir Colin Campbell, who this month takes on...
Researchers at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of Glamorgan have set up a national Citizens' Jury to consider ethical issues surrounding human genetic engineering....
Higher education lecturers are next in line to be scrutinised by a Loughborough University psychologist who has found that British school teachers are more stressed than their French counterparts....
The maths curriculum may be in trouble, but the subject can still attract child prodigies. Twelve-year-old Sufiah Yusof is following in the footsteps of Ruth Lawrence, another gifted mathematician,...