The government-backed UK eUniversities Worldwide was attacked this week by one of Britain's top e-learning experts. Steve Molyneux, director of the Telford-based Learning Lab, said he was shocked by...
Down to business Angels fly to the aid of university spin-offs Rise of the undead Meg Barker looks at the growing attraction of vampirism in modern culture Les Choix d'Henri Cartier Bresson Andrew...
Four more academics have joined the protest over the further concentration of research. Some 34 panel chairs from the 2001 research assessment exercise have threatened to withdraw their help in...
Oxford University Student Union has criticised plans by colleges, spearheaded by Trinity, to raise rents. Trinity plans a 57 per cent increase over four years, adding more than £4,000 to student...
The number of graduates applying to do teacher training in Britain is up 15 per cent on last year, according to figures released this week. The Graduate Teacher Training Registry statistics show the...
Alison Richard, Cambridge University's vice-chancellor elect, is recovering from a riding accident. Professor Richard, provost of Yale University, had her spleen removed after falling from a horse...
Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian universities are investigating setting up a joint school of nursing that could open in September 2004.
More than 40 per cent of newly qualified doctors say that their medical training did not prepare them for work as a pre-registration house officer, a study by Oxford researchers published in the...
Scotland's university principals are pressing for lifelong learning to be kept alongside enterprise under the new Scottish Executive. In last Thursday's Scottish parliamentary elections, Iain Gray,...
A St Andrews University computer science postgraduate is assessing the potential of e-voting to help avoid a repeat of the disappointing turnout in the Scottish elections, writes Olga Wojtas. Tim...
Universities are being seriously weakened by the international brain drain, higher education minister Margaret Hodge warned last week. She told delegates at a science conference in London that...
Thousands of Chinese students whose English-language tests have been cancelled due to the Sars crisis may have to defer taking up places for a year unless UK universities take over the process, the...
The real Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and is not the Egyptian mountain Jebel Musa visited by thousands of pilgrims and tourists every year, according to a respected scientist. Colin Humphreys,...
Hundreds of young lecturers are quitting universities each year before their careers get off the ground, trade union Natfhe said this week. Figures show that 300 lecturers left academe last year...
Any epidemic of variant CJD, the human form of the cattle brain disease BSE, may be much smaller than previously feared, according to new evidence, writes Natasha Gilbert. In a study published in the...