The art of the lecture
Inspiring students in the lecture hall requires honing your rhetorical technique and considering your audience.
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University of Cambridge - Not enough bread for research?
The University of Cambridge is spending £2 million per year on subsidising sandwiches while academic journals are being cancelled and students fight for scarce research grants, according to Ross...
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University of Dundee - Comics experts are just dandy
An expert on comics has challenged academics who get snooty about Lord Snooty and his Beano pals. Christopher Murray, who this week hosted the second annual conference on comics at the University of...
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University of East Anglia - Hit them, baby, one more time
A conference analysing "train wreck" female celebrities will look at the gender dynamics of fame and the popularity of news stories about the women we "love to hate". Hosted by the University of East...
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Anglia Ruskin University - All's fair in education fest
A higher education "superfair" was due to be hosted by Anglia Ruskin University this week, bringing 7,000 potential university students and representatives of 120 other institutions on to its campus...
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University of Glasgow - Lonely Planet meets friendly city
The independent travel publisher Lonely Planet has produced a guide for prospective University of Glasgow students from around the world. The 48-page guide, produced in association with the...
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University College for the Creative Arts - Hope and charity are in fashion
Fashion designer Karen Millen and charity HOPEHIV are to work with the University College for the Creative Arts at Rochester to train a group of 20 young people with HIV in South Africa in fashion...
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University of Portsmouth - Text for success
A lecturer is using mobile-phone voting to ensure that quieter students take part in his tutorials at the University of Portsmouth. Manish Malik, a senior lecturer in electronic and computer...
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University of Sussex - Tutors protest wage cuts
Associate tutors at the University of Sussex who are paid by the hour are protesting after a revaluation of their jobs resulted in pay cuts for some. Hourly paid tutors in some schools have been...
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Canterbury Christ Church University - Queering the status quo
An international queer studies conference is to be hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University in February 2009. The conference, "Queering Paradigms", will "look at the status quo and the...
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University of Lincoln - Democratic ideals saluted
A four-day forum to debate democracy was due to be held by the University of Lincoln this week. Entitled "Magna Carta 2008: Exploring Democracy", it will become an annual event in the run-up to the...
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King's College London - Dimbleby charity funds centre
A charity set up in memory of Richard Dimbleby has funded a new cancer research centre. Scientists at the Richard Dimbleby Laboratory of Cancer Research at King's College London will focus on...
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City University London - Mastering the message
Political communications, campaigning and reporting techniques will be the focus of a new masters course. City University London has launched an MA in political campaigning and reporting, which...
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Queen's University Belfast - Enviable cash package delivered
A £50 million finance package agreed with Barclays Commercial Bank will fund teaching and research facilities, sporting facilities and staff and student accommodation at Queen's University Belfast....
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Glasgow School of Art - Redrawing tomorrow's campus
The Scottish Funding Council has said it will commit up to £50 million towards the first phase of redeveloping the Glasgow School of Art campus and replacing three poor-quality buildings. The...