'Squeezed' Paisley wins a reprieve
THE Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has intervened for the third year running to protect teacher training at Paisley University. SHEFC chief executive John Sizer said that Paisley would be...
THE Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has intervened for the third year running to protect teacher training at Paisley University. SHEFC chief executive John Sizer said that Paisley would be...
A TINY association for lecturers is taking on further education in a David and Goliath-style battle for paid holidays. The Lecturer Employment Advice and Action Fellowship, which has a few dozen...
COAL may no longer dominate the Welsh economy, but the emphasis on education cherished in mining communities endures. Tower, the pit saved from closure in 1995 by a management buy-out, has linked up...
BIAS against university teacher training providers is evident in the latest Teacher Training Agency funding allocations, the University Council for the Education of Teachers has alleged. The council...
KARAOKE is changing women's experience of pub culture by breaking down traditional gender roles, according to research. Whereas women once rarely entered pubs alone and usually occupied a secondary...
AN eco-friendly method of removing deadly toxins produced by blue-green algae from drinking water has been developed by scientists at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Chemist Peter Robertson...
MORE than 1,000 years ago the Chinese used a herbal preparation to ease heart pains that had a very similar effect to modern-day nitroglycerine. Information contained in a medical document discovered...
Wales has the worst housing in Britain, and the oldest in Europe. And it will get worse, jeopardising hopes of economic recovery, without fresh investment. A report for the Institute of Wales, a...
ANALYSIS of the fossilised shells of minute lake-dwelling creatures may at least partially clear mankind of causing drought through global warming, according to new evidence from Kingston University...
WHILE most of Britain was huddled under brollies over the past few weeks, 100 meteorologists from ten countries were relishing the stormy weather. The meteorologists, based for the past two months at...
The wettest February has followed the driest January. THES reporters look at the changing climate. THE storms that claimed the lives of seven people in one night were severe by any reckoning. But...
STATE universities in Kenya have finally accepted that low salaries and poor conditions of service have led to a serious brain drain over the past ten years. Presenting their views to a government...
South Africa is prepared to inject more money into its national student financial aid scheme this year to maintain black student numbers in higher education and avert threatened campus protests....
A POWER struggle at Adelphi University in the United States has ended with the summary firing of Peter Diamandopoulos, accused of exploiting the presidency of a modest-sized private college to fund a...
PART-TIME teachers now account for more than half of all university and college staff in the United States. Their presence helps institutions cut costs but has angered students and unions. There are...