Aznar picks female head of research
BARCELONA Spanish prime minister Jose Mar!a Aznar has created a new ministry in charge of research as one of the first acts of his new government. The ministry of science and technology is to be...
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University criticised for conduct in chewing gum case
COPENHAGEN Danish minister of research Birte Weiss has reprimanded the leaders of Aarhus University for "not showing the necessary attention in supervising the university's activities and its staff"...
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HE given say in post-16 plans
The government has bowed to pressure to give higher education a greater say in planning post-16 education, after initially excluding it from its Learning and Skills Bill. Lifelong learning minister...
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Flagship campus criticised for flaws
Problems with disabled access to Nottingham University's new Pounds 50 million campus, home of the government's flagship national school Leadership College, have emerged. Education secretary David...
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Web launch offers access to untapped wealth
Students will be able to conduct international searches for scholarships and bursaries through a commercial website launched this week, writes Alison Goddard. Iain Aitken, managing director of...
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Age of information falls short on inspiration
For the e-university to match Dearing's vision, it needs more cash and a wealth of ideas, argues Diana Laurillard A bewildering lack of vision obscures the debate over the idea of a global e-...
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Resource starvation threatens UK physics
British physics is in danger of losing its place as a leading player in the world economy, according to two reports published this week. Young physicists are being neglected, says an international...
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Surfers twice as likely to take up further education
More adults are taking up education and training, but new technologies have widened the divide between the "learning rich" and "learning poor". Three reports published in the run-up to next week's...
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Exeter targets its staff in RAE move
Staff at the University of Exeter are alarmed at the tactics the university plans to use to maximise its score in the next research assessment exercise. Under the proposals, some staff members would...
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Med schools worst hit by job threats
Almost 300 redundancies are expected at seven universities,with 200 of them at two London medical schools. The Association of University Teachers condemned the threat of compulsory redundancy at the...
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AUT snub to ILT's 'onerous' demands
Government plans to professionalise university teaching suffered a setback last week with a threat from higher education's largest lecturers' union to boycott the Institute of Learning and Teaching....
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Raising the alarm
(Photograph) - Robert Senior of the University of Northumbria is one of the winners of this year's Royal Society of Arts student design awards thanks to his novel "phone-fob" alarm design. The alarm...
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Authors missing out on copyright fortune
Academic authors are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in revenues from the use of their work for teaching and research because the Copyright Licensing Agency cannot manage the complex system of...
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Sex attacker refused right to OU study
A sex attacker serving life for subjecting a fellow Southampton University student to a terrifying ordeal failed in a High Court bid for the right to take an Open University degree. Lawyers for Larry...
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Culture starts at home for Erasmus
Parents of students who study abroad on Erasmus programmes tend to be more highly qualified than the parents of other students, according to a European Commission report. The report aimed to...