Bomb reveals Saxon ditch
The new treasure act came into force last week but archaeologists are already making great finds without digging FALLOUT from the IRA bomb attack on Manchester in 1996 has led archaeologists to a...
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Frontier spirit led to Manchester successes
CITIES seeking to boost their economies should look to education rather than the retail trade for success, say researchers. A three-year project, supported by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council,...
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Researchers tune in to disabled children
Researchers at Dundee University are investigating how non-speaking children can tell their stories. The department of applied computing has won Pounds 137,000 from the Engineering and Physical...
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Investigation of inventions that fail to take off
Edinburgh University researchers are to investigate the perceived failure of British industry to turn inventions into innovations over the past 50 years. The project, backed by Pounds 194,000 from...
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Hidden treasure for researchers in legal changes
The new treasure act came into force last week but archaeologists are already making great finds without digging Law changes under the 1996 Treasure Act, which came into effect last week, will have a...
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More jobs in French budget
JOB creation in universities and public research institutes is one of the main features of the French budget unveiled last week. The 1998 budget for higher education creates 3,000 academic posts in...
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Call for extra school year for professions
AUSTRALIA selects its students too young for university courses such as medicine, law, accounting, engineering and teaching, a federal government advisory body has warned. The Higher Education...
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Malaysian expansion
PERAK will be the first of Malaysia's northern states to establish bilateral education links with Indonesia's Northern Sumatera when Premier Yayasan Perak College sets up a branch in Medan this year...
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Kosovo sit-in against Serbian
Ethnic Albanian students in the Serbian province of Kosovo have announced a "takeover campaign" to coincide with the opening of the university term this week. They appealed to diplomats and...
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Europeans protect university tradition
David Jobbins reports from Palermo on higher education's preparations for the 1998 Unesco world conference. EUROPEAN rectors have lent their support to a declaration on the future of Europe's...
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Let the rich help fund excellence
Higher education was this week's party pooper, with anti-fees demonstrators outside the Labour party's triumphant conference and a few dissenters inside brave enough to defy the party organisers. By...
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Soft money, hard battles in the lab
In our fourth and final article on the big issues in the Dearing debate Sir Arnold Wolfendale makes a plea for research that pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. In Sir Ron Dearing's foreword to...
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An awful warning
Universities and schools must not be taken down the same funding road as further education, say Patrick Ainley and Bill Bailey. Helena Kennedy, QC's report Learning Works, commissioned by the Further...
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Australian mantra to ward off (at least some) evils
Nicholas Barr describes the lessons to be learnt from Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme As the funding of British higher education has got into a worse and worse mess through the 1990s...
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Accounting entries
Your report "Into the big time with big bucks" (THES, September 12) wrongly attributes to the Institute of Chartered Accountants a preference for non-accountancy graduates when it comes to training...