York picks up record private donation
Days after the Ontario provincial government announced deep cuts to higher education in their province, Toronto's York University president Susan Mann accepted and welcomed the largest private...
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US keeps eye on the race
Taking race into account in college admissions - in the name of helping disadvantaged minorities - was turned into one of 1995's biggest political issues in higher education by conservatives who...
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Fastest Hamlet in the West
Those aiming to break the record for the fastest recitation of Hamlet's most famous soliloquy should be warned: human judges have been replaced by more probing computerised ones. The speech of the...
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Medieval Hansard awaited
The spotlight is to shine again on life in medieval England with the first translation of the original parliamentary Hansard. The Leverhulme Trust has awarded more than Pounds 306,000, one of its...
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Police flout informer rulebook
The police regularly break 榴莲视频 Office rules governing their dealings with informants and in so doing often engage in questionable practices, according to researchers at Hull University. The...
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Hidden danger in greener laws
Environmental pollution could bring down international finance houses and global markets, as well as damaging human health, according to economists, business experts and legal advisers. Laws that the...
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Learning to manage with those rapid changes
Arming employees with the skills to manage change within companies should be one of the main responses of management education courses to the quickening pace of change in the wider business...
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On the right Royal road to real success
De Montfort University's v-c wants the former polytechnic to become like a medieval cathedral, a large employer, a patron of the arts and repository of knowledge and scholarship. Simon Targett...
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All wired up
(Photograph) - Artist Mandy Barber and parts of her installation involving 800 blankets, 200 electric ladybird nightlights and 35 orange glow electric nightlights, that was exhibited at Sheffield...
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Shortage of space forced Kent MA delay
Kent Institute of Art and Design has launched an inquiry into events leading to the last-minute suspension of its MA art and architecture course. Ten students from as far away as Mexico and Japan...
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Genetics reply angers MPs
The Government's response to a House of Commons report on opportunities and dangers posed by the fast-moving field of genetics has been slammed by MPs as "complacent and ignorant". The MPs, all...
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Saints land one safely in the net
Southampton's Premier League football club is being subjected to academic scrutiny. Its progress is being charted through a new service on the Internet provided by researchers at Southampton...
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CBI wants 'parity of esteem'
Core skills must be introduced into A levels and GNVQs must be made more relevant to the workplace if the gap between academic and vocational qualifications is to be closed, the Confederation of...
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NVQs given 'too low a profile'
The Government quango charged with introducing national vocational qualifications is bungling the development of new NVQs, according to the head of the leading awarding body of job-related...
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Training relief extended
The extension of the Inland Revenue's vocational training tax relief scheme moved closer to the statute books this week as the Finance Bill based on last November's Budget received its second reading...