Lifelong Learning
This is an abridged and edited version of the report of the National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning The agenda There are ten points we believe can be achieved within...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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A flock of exotic birds in South Kensington
A Grand Design - Vision and Accident
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
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Exposed: PR's political ambition
STIRLING University researchers are mapping the scope and scale of the political public relations industries and the professional groups who staff them. The work, led by Philip Schlesinger of...
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Railroaders and net buccaneers
INFORMATION RULES: a strategic guide to the network economy. By Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian. Harvard Business School Press, 362pp $29.95/Pounds 22.95 - ISBN 0 87584 863 X. This book is a must read...
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Agony aunt
Q) I was recently appointed the first woman head of our department and am already detecting jealousy among some of my male colleagues. What is the best way to handle the problem without alienating my...
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A dirtier shade of green
Earth in the Balance - Al Gore
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...
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Scots get Pounds 7.5m to develop facilities
The reclamation of "brownfield" sites, the economics of renewable energy sources, high-tech materials for medical uses, and food hygiene and nutrition are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish...
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How to fight solitary confinement
WHAT: Watching fellow students solve problems is invaluable, says John Lee,but technology threatens to stifle such vicarious learning. WHY: Today's students spend less time on campus and more time...
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Unions reject 1.5%
The two biggest lecturers' unions were on a collision course with their employers this week following the rejection of a "lamentable" pay offer and "sweatshop" industrial relations strategy. The...
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Wilson defends Garrick rejection
Gerald Wilson, secretary of the Scottish Office education and industry department, has defended the government's decision to turn down the Garrick Committee's call for a chief scientific adviser for...
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Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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The world according to Gates
Why did Bill Gates, the world's richest man, take time off from building his fortune and fighting the US Justice Department to lecture to a bunch of London students? Kam Patel went to find out. A...