They believe the move will lead to a “redistribution” of students to established universities, rather than to a massive increase in numbers.Margaret Hodge, the Minister for Universities, told universities it was “timely and right” to have a debate over lifting the restriction. Privately though, officials are stressing that the move would mean vice-chancellors would [...]

Sources in the public prosecutor’s office said he would be looking at physical and other evidence which appeared to corroborate at least part of Ms Mulder’s story.Ms Mulder, born in the Netherlands in 1968, was for many years among the 10 best-paid models in the world. She retired a year ago and is currently [...]

Now I have no desire to get on a motorbike again.”He responds calmly and thoughtfully when I allude to the rumours about the cast “doing a Friends” and demanding exorbitant fees.”Our fees have gone up and I’m happy to say that it’s well paid,” he says “It’s all about market rate. I don’t know [...]

If the accounts of the Northern Alliance soldiers are to be believed, 400 defeated men managed to force the United States into taking part in the massacre of prisoners of war.. An unconventional alliance of South African scientists and traditional healers is frantically trying to spread information about an indigenous plant which can help [...]

He added that he was not allowed under Home Office rules to name her killer.But police who investigated the murder said there was no doubt Nick Davies was to blame.Detective Chief Superintendent Wynne Phillips said: “There is not a shred of evidence at all that can connect any other person with the death of [...]

These works, and the 1987 original New Palgrave from which they sprang, were widely conceded to be landmarks in the literature of economics. Taken as a whole, they further cemented his reputation in the history of economics (a subject for which, somewhat unfashionably, he was a tireless champion).Peter Newman was a modest man and, [...]

The FSA has also been given daunting powers of investigation and discipline, and the trouble with absolutist government is that it is just as likely to be oppressive as enlightened.Even so, thus far the omens are good. The evidence is that regulatory reform is increasing London’s attractiveness as a financial centre, not decreasing it, [...]

Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, was due to set off for the United States last night after doggedly refusing to budge on a key demand, fuelling growing suspicions among international mediators that he is deliberately blocking a Middle East peace plan. As violence flared anew ­ with seven deaths yesterday, including four in a [...]

Qanooni, that he will take it home to Kabul and implement it.”We can only take their word for it,” he said.Mr Rabbani’s comments. They were still carrying the bodies out yesterday So many of them were strewn around the old fortress. We saw one go past whose foot had been half-torn off and was [...]

“Could It Be Forever?” “I Think I Love You”, “Cherish” and “How Can I Be Sure” – testaments to teenage doubt in matters of the heart that took 3,500 people back to a time of sexual awakening. In an act of homage, a pair of knickers was duly thrown at him.For Stephanie Currie, 44, [...]