GRADUATE employment opportunities are better than ever, according to new figures. The Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed this week that "record numbers" of graduates entered jobs within six...
THE LONDON School of Economics and Moscow's Higher School of Economics are jointly setting up a college to try to meet a severe shortage of specialists in market economics in Russia, writes Kam Patel...
UNIVERSITY companies charged with exploiting academic research doubled their income in just a year, according to an imminent study. Their gross income of Pounds 121 million in 1994/95 was twice that...
SCOTTISH higher education institutions have won a Pounds 2 million boost for commercialising their research in science and technology. Scottish education minister Brian Wilson this week launched the...
GLASGOW Caledonian University has been accused of academic malpractice after it allowed a dozen students to resit their exams three times, writes Olga Wojtas. The university has condemned the...
Scottish higher education institutions will win almost Pounds 1.5 million in extra funding next session to reward subjects rated as excellent in the 1996-97 quality assessments by the Scottish Higher...
AUGUST 20 this year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most dramatic discoveries in medical science. Ronald Ross solved the so-called "malaria problem" by showing that the disease was...
(Photograph) - The back pack: students return to the University of Nairobi, which was closed by police last month, after President Daniel arap Moi accused the students of fomenting opposition to his...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author best known for his novels of the fourth emperor: "As proof of my...
The Dynasty - The Idea of India
In the Theater of Consciousness - Consciousness Lost and Found
On Karl Marx's Capital. I would love to be able to report that my most formative moment was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex or Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract. The truth is, however...
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