Heather's story
Heather, a lecturer from New Zealand describes how using a formalised storytelling process enabled her to let go of her expectations. "I was working with another lecturer on a student project. They...
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Reflections on self-control
Lorraine Stefani describes how engineering students logged their progress on a project and then negotiated their grades with staff For many years I have supported and encouraged the provision of...
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Creeping invasion of super techies
Staff say the barrier to using IT in teaching is imagination, not practice. Olga Wojtas reports on the results of an Edinburgh University survey In the first half of this decade, the funding councils...
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Scots finish quality audit
The Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council this week marked the end of its teaching quality assessment cycle with a report on results of the six-year process. Out of 315 teaching assessments, more...
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Plymouth shines beacon
Plymouth College of further education has won a Beacon Award for excellence in science teaching. The college won the biology award for its innovative A-level biology courses run by Peter Belton and...
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Chemists get distance MBA
The Royal Society of Scotland and the University of Strathclyde have teamed up to launch an MSc aimed at helping industrial chemists beef up their management skills. The three-year MSc in chemical...
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Brits reluctant to study abroad
British taxpayers and higher education institutions are paying millions of pounds for the equivalent of a university dedicated wholly to teaching students from other European countries, it emerged...
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London is leading in access stakes
Institutions in the capital are best at attracting students from under-represented groups, according to a funding council study published yesterday. About 37 per cent of young undergraduates at...
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HEFCE to fund 41 projects
Colleges, new universities and institutions based in London have won the lion's share of special funding to improve poor facilities. HEFCE will fund 41 projects totalling Pounds 93 million over the...
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HEFCE launch consultation on proposed fund for good management practice
In a separate initiative, HEFCE this week launched a consultation on its proposed fund for good management practice. The fund, worth Pounds 10 million over the next three years, is intended to...
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Vienna
Students from the University of Pristina in Kosovo who applied earlier this year to study in Vienna fear documents, transcripts and certificates sent for verification in Belgrade have been destroyed...
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Havana
Ten British companies are travelling to this week's UK-Cuba biotechnology seminar, which is aimed at putting British business in touch with Cuban research institutes despite the United States trade...
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Changchun
The 1999 China international education fair will take place in Changchun, the capital of northeastern Jilin province from August 18-21. More than 400 Chinese and overseas universities and secondary...
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Eye witness
Swiss voters are expected to end one of the world's odder macroeconomic anomalies this weekend when a referendum will determine whether the world's richest country finally comes off the gold standard...
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Market forces dictating
Students are moving from historically black to white universities in South Africa, Karen MacGregor writes. When apartheid's walls came tumbling down, the market quickly replaced them in South African...