A SUCCESSION of elderly women unchained their front doors and confirmed support for Ian Gibson, Labour candidate for marginal Norwich North as he toured a council sheltered housing estate. "It's time...
AS YOU emerge from Stirling railway station, every lamppost is festooned with placards promoting Scotland's four main political parties. Two miles away, in Stirling University, the noticeboards are...
STUDENTS comprise between 15 and 20 per cent of the electorate in Conservative held Leeds North West. The constituency includes Headingley, famed for its rugby league and cricket grounds, where...
CAMPAIGN stickers for the Liberal Democrat candidate in Bath proclaim "Carry on Don". The problem is that Don Foster, the MP and party education spokesman, may not be allowed to carry on. His...
AT ONE time, Plymouth probably had the closest thing to a command economy west of Berlin with one in three people making a living directly or indirectly from the defence industry. But with the end of...
THE CHANCELLOR of the University of Ulster is at the centre of a public row over the province's religiously divided education system. The university moved to isolate Rabbi Julia Neuberger after she...
DERBY University and two neighbouring colleges look set to become the United Kingdom's first fully merged higher and further education institution. Proposals have been lodged with the Further and...
SENIOR academics at the University of Nottingham have spoken out for the first time against the regime which is seeking to identify and then axe 50 alleged under- performers by September. A group in...
LECTURERS at Middlesex University are planning further industrial action in protest at plans to close highly regarded design courses and axe 22 jobs. Natfhe members are threatening to step up action...
Musicians have been playing the work of Brahms riddled with errors for a century because the composer and his Leipzig printers did not do their proof-reading carefully enough. Robert Pascall of...
Scientists are using new genetic techniques to identify the sex and species of a seal from its droppings in an attempt to find out which seals are eating commercially-important fish. Half the world...
Everyone knows the cheetah is the fastest thing on four legs - but how fast? In 1965, a British athletics coach, visiting Kenya, turned his stop watch on a female cheetah. Now in the school of...
The foster care service requires "urgent action" to halt an impending crisis, according to research from the University of Luton. David Berridge, professor of child and family welfare, said that...
The Church of England may not always offer women a very positive experience, says a Warwick University researcher who is investigating faith and females. In her paper, Learning to Swim When You Were...
Two conferences consider how far women are taking leading roles in education and at work. Few women enter the computer industry or study computer science, because they think it offers poor job...