Modern explorers chart demise of the 'lone hero'
Ask people to describe the study of geography and most will mention fieldwork. But there has been surprisingly little analysis of what fieldwork is and how it developed. "We often write about the...
Search
-
-
Women in province seize the day
Women students from across Northern Ireland have been debating their role in the province's future development at the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland women's annual conference...
-
In the news
When Rodney Bickerstaffe was elected general secretary of Britain's biggest union, Unison, in November 1995, he turned down a Pounds 9,000 pay rise. "What you don't have, you don't miss," he said at...
-
Paris
A bill to set up a Franco-German university has been backed by the French national assembly's foreign affairs committee. The bill will be presented to the full assembly next week, but several...
-
Fielding ideas
(Photograph) - Perdita Phillips, artist in residence at Royal Holloway's department of geography, has created an exhibition inspired by geography fieldwork. Ms Phillips trained as an environmental...
-
Fraud squad at Bilston
The fraud squad have been called into crisis-hit Bilston Community College following suspected financial irregularities. West Midlands' Police this week confirmed: "We have been asked by the Further...
-
Home is where the Foyer is
The Foyer Foundation holds its annual conference next week. Harriet Swain looks at how foyers are helping Britain's poorest young people get into college Government funding of further and higher...
-
The THES Diary
Off the cuff With the present flurry of higher education initiatives, it was an easy mistake to make. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP), organiser of last week's conference on...
-
Glittering prizes
The Open University will award honorary degrees tomorrow to database specialist and lecturer Hugh Darwen (MUniv); education reformer John Tomlinson (DUniv); Alistair Graham, chief executive at Leeds...
-
On the move
David Mingos, 54, Sir Edward Frankland BP professor of chemistry and dean of the Royal College of Science at Imperial College, London, has been elected principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has...
-
Eye witness
The Comoros, an isolated group of islands 300 kilometres off the east coast of Africa, is coming to terms with the latest of a series of coups, attempted coups and political unrest since independence...
-
Moscow
A Russian parliamentary official has been arrested for allegedly taking a Pounds 6,000 bribe from a scientific research centre to lobby for a favourable international agreement. The Federal Security...
-
Vaxjo
Magnus Soderstrom has been named rector of Vaxjo University, one of Sweden's new universities, upgraded from a university college. He is assistant professor of educational science at Uppsala...
-
Malacca
Malaysian university vice-chancellors were given two days to identify students who took part in street protests in support of jailed former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. University disciplinary...
-
A tendency for divergence
European integration will not come about by talk of convergence alone, say Institute of Education workers National convergence is at the heart of the European project and of much post-war social...