Social worker video stars
Future social workers can perfect their interviewing technique on video using role play as part of a York University course in interviewing skills, which has won extra cash from the ÌÇÐÄVlog...
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Dance coup
(Photograph) - Dance coup: Northern School of Contemporary Dance's Darren Pritchard, a third-year student, in rehearsals for the school's London debut at The Place this week.Photograph: Neil Turner
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French school expands courses
PARIS A new masters degree and two new professorships are among initiatives announced by EM Lyon, one of France's top international schools of management. It has also launched a club called LYEN (...
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Libraries approach copyright solution
Faster, cheaper online access to individual articles in journals could be available soon to students and staff at universities thanks to a pilot document- delivery service to be developed by...
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UCAS adds 83 colleges to recruitment service
* A further 83 further education colleges joined the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service this week. They will recruit students on to higher education courses through UCAS from next year.
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Academy uncovered
Global research company ingenta is to acquire UnCover, a top article access and document delivery provider to the United States academic library market. The deal will create the world's largest...
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UK pips US at the post in research poll
Scientists from the United Kingdom ahver a greater impact on the international community than their United States counterparts, according to a new study. The challenge to the accepted picture of US...
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THES on the web
A fuller version of John Davies's radio and TV listings (p18), complete with web links, is just one of the goodies you will find at www.thesis.co.uk Summaries of The THES, and hundreds of jobs,...
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Rise in first-class females
* More women gained first-class degrees in 1999, but the gap grew between them and the men who dominate the top grade. Some 7.2 per cent of women attained a first-class degree in 1999, compared with...
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CVCP board approves QAA proposals
* Universities' teaching quality will be judged in just two categories under a simplified inspection regime. The board of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals unanimously approved Quality...
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Research programme attracts HE projects
* Ninety-three applications for projects totalling Pounds 60 million have been submitted for the Economic and Social Research Council's Pounds 8.5 million teaching and learning research programme....
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Academics head meningitis study
* The largest study on the carriage of the bacteria responsible for meningitis in young people is to be carried out by experts from the universities of Oxford and Nottingham, and Imperial College,...
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Contracts bring ballot on strike action
* The Educational Institute of Scotland is balloting members on strike action after the announcement of new contracts said by management to offer "efficiency, flexibility and fairness". The...
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Bristol is legal firms' top hunting ground
* Bristol University is the favourite source of law graduates for the United Kingdom's largest law firms, according to a survey out later this month. It beats Oxford and Cambridge for the first time...
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Keele raises Pounds 55 million for campus
* Keele University has struck a private finance deal to raise more than Pounds 55 million to improve student accommodation. The cash comes from bonds that will be issued by a separate company,...