Kellogg's two-week challenge diet might sound like a dubious marketing scam for breakfast cereals, but it is backedby some leading nutritionists, writes Olga Wojtas The cabbage soup diet. The steak...
Nigel Barley invites you to enter the Whore of Babylon Experience, a fictional museum tour. Patchouli squirts, orgasmic commentary and multiple virgins await, not to mention your fellow visitors -...
STIRLING University researchers are mapping the scope and scale of the political public relations industries and the professional groups who staff them. The work, led by Philip Schlesinger of...
The government has secured a Pounds 160 million boost from the European Social Fund to support the University for Industry and other lifelong learning proposals. David Blunkett, secretary of state...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is planning a "third leg" of support alongside its funding of research and teaching. It wants to help institutions boost their "professional...
Bruxelles, le 16 d écembre 2002 Madame la Ministre, Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, Je voudrais tout d'abord remercier Mme Dupuis d'avoir pris l'initiative de cette conférence consacrée...
The central principle of a lifelong learning curriculum, based on knowledge and citizenship, should be a social theory of learning that runs through our lives like the message in a stick of rock. We...
Munich, 5 December 2002 The EU Archimedes Prize - the EU's science prize for undergraduate students - was awarded today, December 5, in Munich to 20 projects carried out by young European scientists...
WHAT Ronald Barnett, Kelly Coate and Gareth Parry make sense of study programmes. WHY Curriculum planning is a complicated, yet necessary part of improving degree quality. HOW The undergraduate...
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this service is...
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
Mary Stuart knows at first hand the life of the inner-city poor. Now a Sussex pro vice-chancellor, she is determined to give them every chance to attend university, writes Pat Leon. Mary Stuart was a...
There is a remarkably cosy family atmosphere at Cardiff Business School. Nigel Piercy, professor of marketing and strategy at the business school, works closely with his wife, senior research...
Michael Brown, pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Peter Gilroy, of Manchester Metropolitan University, will be...