It is extraordinary, but true, that one of our great national museums is co-ordinating an activity that breaks international law. That museum is the Natural History Museum, which is collaborating in research with an Israeli commercial firm located in an illegal settlement in the Palestinian West Bank.
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Fear of tuition fees creates Open University generation
Saturday 20 August 2011
A new generation of university students is choosing to live at home and study for degrees online to avoid soaring tuition fees and increasingly competitive entry requirements.
Students name best (and worst) universities
Wednesday 17 August 2011
A year is a long time in the world of higher education. A university that has been the most expensive in the country will become one of the best in terms of value for money next year.
Reforms will hit middle-ranking universities
Tuesday 16 August 2011
A dramatic shift in higher-education provision with middle-ranking universities struggling to survive is predicted today by the head of one of the country's biggest exam boards.
Why bad design is cramping our style
Thursday 11 August 2011
A new TV series explores the impact the built environment has on the way we live. By Yvonne Cook
Last Night's TV - Entourage, Sky Atlantic; Wonderstuff, BBC2
Tuesday 26 July 2011
The party's over for the bratpack
Neighbours shocked as police stage dawn raid after hospital deaths
Thursday 21 July 2011
The low-key police operation began shortly after 6am yesterday when detectives arrived at the flat above a darts shop on the busy A6 road out of Stockport. None of the neighbouring businesses was open and no one around to witness the woman being taken from the home she shared with her fiancé on suspicion of murder.
A sharper focus for the IT crowd
Tuesday 05 July 2011
Computing graduates are dwindling, but two new OU degrees could change that, says Yvonne Cook
Universities told they may have to cut fees or merge to survive
Monday 27 June 2011
Universities that were planning to charge the maximum £9,000 tuition fee may slash student numbers or be forced to cut their fees, according to the head of the UK organisation for vice-chancellors.
Why MBAs will have to adapt to survive
Thursday 23 June 2011
Jessica Moore finds the future of business education is in question
Here’s the proof that Britain can make it
Tuesday 07 June 2011
The collapse of our industrial economy is a myth. Yvonne Cook investigates
A gentle nudge in the right direction
Friday 06 May 2011
If we all stop overfilling our kettles and instead boil only the water we need, in a year we will save enough electricity to run the UK’s street lighting for nearly two months. But how can we be persuaded to change our behaviour?
The University debate: There's more than one way to learn
Thursday 17 February 2011
Going up to Oxford taught the novelist Philip Hensher life's possibilities. Going straight into employment gave the entrepreneur Simon Dolan a head start at work. So who had the advantage?
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