Brussels, 14 Nov 2002 The Commission sponsored Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) presented the findings of its first year of work in a comprehensive Strategic Research...
Brussels, 14 Nov 2002 'Corner your representatives at the Convention, put pressure on them,' said EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin on 13 November. He made the plea with the aim of seeing...
Hodge spells out student/parent HE cost responsibility The government is spelling out, at a conference in London, why students and their parents have a responsibility to contribute towards the cost...
Old degree grades may be scrapped Ministers are planning to scrap the centuries-old system of degree classifications and to replace them with a simple points score. Proposals to end the "blunt...
Alex Neil, convenor of the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee, has called for the independent Cubie committee to be reconvened to investigate the funding of Scotland's...
Traditional degree classifications would be scrapped in favour of a US-style average points score and a detailed transcript of achievement under government proposals to be put forward in the new year...
History may be bunk, but its graduates are the future of UK plc, according to research that reveals that the subject turns out more directors of top companies than any other. The research being...
A soap opera set in a business school may never take the place of Coronation Street or EastEnders , but it has won an award for the London Business School and increased its application rate. Last...
Four Cambridge University scientists were invited to a briefing at Downing Street last week to bring prime minister Tony Blair up to speed on UK science. Science minister Lord Sainsbury, trade and...
The planned European Research Council may never happen because European Union member states are refusing to pay for it, according to Philippe Busquin, commissioner for research at the European...
Four higher education unions joined forces yesterday to strike over London weighting payments. The action in the capital was complete with a cavalcade containing a stretch limousine of "fat-cat vice-...
Three Nobel laureates, two fellows of University College London and a High Court judge have all signed a petition expressing concern at the proposal to merge with Imperial College London. More than...
Fine art students at Lincoln University are protesting today following news that their degree is being axed along with 12 staff out of the current faculty of 13. "How can we be expected to complete...
Portsmouth University is giving all its staff a ?250 Christmas bonus as a thank you for their help in keeping the university in the black. They are also celebrating a 15 per cent increase in...
Aston University's Business School has been rated as Europe's best by The Economist Intelligence Unit's "Which MBA" guide. It scored 90 per cent in rankings based on the opinions of present and...