Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...
Knights Bachelor Professor James Armour, for services to the veterinary profession and education. Michael Bond (professor of psychological medicine and vice principal, University of Glasgow) for...
INHERITANCE Photographs of three generations of Welsh home and family by Peter Finnemore will be exhibited at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (January 9-February 20). Details: Jenny Fell, Aberystwyth...
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR Gerwyn Williams, is the first person to win a National Eisteddfod literary competion while a member of the Welsh department. He was awarded the crown in August 1994 for...
SEISMOSAURUS: THE EARTH SHAKER BY DAVID D. GILLETTE Columbia University Press, 205pp, Pounds 26.50 ISBN 0 231 07874 9 Americans frequently claim to produce the biggest, fastest or whatever...
Monday: Collect 31 forms for the end-of-term feedback. Horrified to discover that they are all the same for lecture courses, practical sessions and tutorials. We are asking students to grade their...
The Secretary of State for Education told colleges this week that more young people needed to reach "higher levels of achievement". But on the same day, a survey revealed that severe financial...
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
A fully-fledged inspectorate for monitoring standards in workplace vocational qualifications is to be established next April by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications. The NCVQ is...
A stark picture of university life in Nigeria was painted by Nigerian academic and Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka on his arrival in Paris this week. "The education system is dead," said Mr...
You are in mid-career and thought that the chance of doing postgraduate work at university, let alone Oxbridge, had long passed? Think again. Cambridge University has established a new postgraduate...
(Photograph) - Ian Skewis and Sarah Grochala of Strathclyde University's theatre group play the title roles in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the university's drama centre. It is being...
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
MPs have condemned the Government's efficiency scrutiny of public research laboratories as a waste of researchers' time. The probe may also have been "profoundly and unnecessarily damaging to their...
Max Perutz, the Nobel prize-winning chemist, yesterday attacked the theories of science proposed by philosophers Sir Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, dismissing them as being applicable "to only a few...