Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
Academics have joined a campaign against the patenting of life forms in the lead up to two important European decisions on patents. The campaign, run by the Genetics Forum, involves the signing of a...
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
Ian Bouchier, chief scientist at the Scottish Office home and health department, said this week that Scotland should consider establishing an academic centre for research in primary care and general...
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education launched a new centre of policy and health research yesterday. Helping people cope with motor neurone disease will be one of its main areas of...
The quality of the writing on the back of lavatory doors in Scottish seats of learning is about to improve dramatically. Posters bearing arresting extracts from contemporary fiction, including The...
Fears of a demographic crisis in English universities have been dispelled by a staff survey released this week. The figures contained in the report from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
A major shake-up in the running of Irish universities is planned by education minister Niamh Bhreathnach, who intends to introduce legislation to make them more accountable. New governing bodies will...
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has launched a research project to compare the costs of education for 16 to 19-year-olds in secondary schools and further education colleges...
The House of Commons science and technology committee is launching an inquiry into the research councils. The probe will look at the restructuring of the councils following the 1993 science white...
The National Union of Students is launching what it describes as its most widespread and in-depth research initiative, to sound student views on the funding of education in time for its annual...
The latest academic research has thrown up a a new link between those much debated phenomena; screen violence and rising crime rates. According to researchers at the London School of Economics the...
A new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of the disruption caused by building work on one of its campuses. The move by the University of Westminster,...