Brussels, 21 February 2002 In a letter to José Maria Aznar, President of the European Council, Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Wim Kok have called for determined action by the EU and its Member States...
Your leader ("Please sir, why should anyone want to teach?" É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, October 2) stated that "too few want to be teachers", yet evidence from the post-compulsory sector would appear to contradict this....
Brussels, 14 June 2002 COMMUNICATION FROM É«ºÐÖ±²¥ COMMISSION TO É«ºÐÖ±²¥ COUNCIL AND É«ºÐÖ±²¥ EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible...
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ government is determined to "modernise and refocus" the higher education establishment, a conference on lifelong learning was told this week. "If the government can sweep to power and change the...
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Stripped of its layers of ham,...
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Gordon Brown: 'The new economy of the next decade will need more competition, more entrepreneurship, more flexibility,...
Will education control be local, regional or national? É«ºÐÖ±²¥S reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the Higher Education...
Labour must modernise industry and back regional growth if it is not once again to preside over a slump, argues Colin Hay. Now that Labour has won the election, the debate over the party's self-...
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Second Edition
'There should be some failure. It means you are learning more,' Richard Brook tells Natasha Loder. As chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the United Kingdom's...
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
Diversity will thrive if universities are given the money to do what they are best at, argue Richard Brown and Gareth Williams The Higher Education Funding Council for England admitted in a recent...
UNIVERSITIES will never be able to define and assess a set of "key skills" acceptable to industry, an Institute of Education report will warn later this month, writes Phil Baty. The report's author,...
David Jobbins and Philip Fine report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities meeting in Ottawa. Commonwealth vice-chancellors have approved in principle a plan for a Commonwealth...