Euro-MPs have joined the battle to save two internationally-acclaimed language courses from closure because of Government cuts in student support. England's only postgraduate combined translation and...
(Photograph) - Floor show: Margaret Peart, a former art teacher at her one-woman show at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent until the end of March. She teaches...
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked Pounds 67 million, 5 per cent of the total science budget of Pounds 1,282 million, to "priority initiatives" including collaboration between...
The rate at which grant-making trusts are set up has slowed dramatically over the past few years following a 20 per cent drop in the 1980s, according to the Charities Aid Foundation. For the past...
Law teachers in universities and colleges need more professional development training to deliver the broader curriculum recommended by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education,...
The storm that has blown up over the clash between Manchester United's French soccer star Eric Cantona and a supporter may be a reflection of nationalistic tensions among football followers,...
The Department of Health has awarded Pounds 250,000 to medical researchers at Leicester University to carry out a two-year investigation into the popular but costly hip replacement operation. Around...
Recorded crime in Huddersfield is down 30 per cent after the first three months of a Manchester University project aimed at preventing repeat victimisation. And the lessons learned may allow crime...
The break-up of the bankrupt South Thames Training and Enterprise Council has prompted a restructuring of TECs that could lead to the creation of a super-TEC for London. Employment minister James...
Mechanical engineers at Imperial College are developing a robot that promises to help surgeons lessen their reliance on an array of jigs and fixtures and achieve greater accuracy when carrying out...
Ulster's further education colleges - already reduced from 24 to 17 after a series of mergers - should be cut again, a report from the province's economic council has urged. The report on Northern...
Nearly half a million students living in the private-rented sector stand to benefit from proposals to be submitted next week by the National Union of Students to the Department of the Environment....
(Photograph) - Class Act: Savourna Stevenson taking one of a series of master classes with the clarsach, a traditional Celtic harp, at the Celtic Connections festival run by the University of...
More academic soaps nominated by Mary Bryden of the faculty of letters and social sciences at Reading University - for literacy courses Bookside, for communications Home and A Way With Words, for...
Those wanting to know how the Association for Colleges got that way now have a simple answer - they are all visionaries. A staff training day devoted to finding the best ways of working together...