Postgraduate ramparts fall to female power
Statistics released by Israel's ministry of education have confirmed the continuation of a recent trend that has seen females comprising an ever-increasing percentage of the university population....
Statistics released by Israel's ministry of education have confirmed the continuation of a recent trend that has seen females comprising an ever-increasing percentage of the university population....
Average A-level grades of university entrants are up, but figures give little support to some myths about higher education, Bernard Kingston argues National debates on educational standards regularly...
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. Charities: Professor D. Thurnham, Pounds 153,000 from The Howard Foundation (research chair) Research contracts: Dr A. Smith, Pounds 60,000 from Youth Services (controversial...
The latest figures show that 8 per cent of British professors are women, with older universities among the worst offenders. Sian Griffiths sorts the bad from the slightly better Ann Chant, head of...
New Labour's mantra at the last election was that things could only get better. Certainly, higher education has changed significantly since Tony Blair swept to power, but is the sector, and the staff...
Parents' Duties, Children's Debts
Although textbook presentation in the UK has leapt forward, students will still demand ever more value, says Simon Lake. In The Student Market Today , a market research report published by the...
Quantum Technology
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs The 1990s were supposed to look very different. In the MLA's files from 1989, there is a newspaper clipping that now reads like a sick joke. "Shortage of...
Researchers at Cambridge University are launching the second phase of a unique study of diabetes, this time investigating how physical inactivity affects the onset of the disease. More than 1,100...
The Physical Review
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
THE first further education performance indicators for England show that colleges are recruiting and planning successfully, but many students are dropping out and underachieving. Between 1993/94 and...
Seamus Heaney - The Poetry of Seamus Heaney - Opened Ground