No direction leads to university
Young people do not apply to university to improve their job prospects or earnings potential, according to Cardiff University researcher Sara Williams. In Ms Williams's survey, an overwhelming...
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Australia finds flexible solution to IT drought
MELBOURNE Australia's technological universities are beginning to broaden university courses in information technology as a means of helping overcome a desperate shortage of IT professionals. A...
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Morning America
UKhigher education gained a faster internet connection to North America at 8.30 am on Tuesday, when a new 155 megabit per second link between JANET and Teleglobe went into service. A second 155 mbps...
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Ageism: employers lose out
Bright young things need only apply B&Q plc At least 50 of this year's 400 applicants to DIY chain B&Q's fast-track store manager scheme would never have been considered before. For all of...
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Manchester fails Israel audit
Quality watchdogs have called on Manchester University to review "insufficient" safeguards on the standard of courses run with a college in Israel. In early 1998, auditors visited the Israeli Centre...
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Climate research broadens its base
Climate research is to get at least Pounds 1 million a year over the next five years from the natural environment and engineering and physical sciences research councils. University bids to house an...
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V-cs reject beefed-up copyright
Vice-chancellors have given the thumbs down to the Association of University Teachers' proposals for a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, their employers and...
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E-journals revolution threatens publishers
The increasing availability of scholarly e-journals is the beginning of a "revolution" in the communication of research that could ultimately destroy the dominant role of commercial publishers,...
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Global libraries put cash into fight over price hikes
University librarians have launched a project to help speed the creation of electronic journals by academics worldwide. The Scientific Communities Initiative will offer grants totalling $500,000 (...
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Chimps 'unique' like us
Chimpanzees have distinct personalities that can be quantified in the same way as human personalities, according to research by Lindsay Murray of University College Chester. "Some people think that...
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Ecstasy and cannabis affect the memory
Using ecstasy and cannabis impairs memory, according to new research. Psychologists from the University of Sunderland have been investigating memory function and reaction times among regular drug...
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Alternatives to the ILT
A club no one wants to join. Just weeks from its launch date, the Institute for Learning and Teaching is in trouble Stirling University has proposed an approach that it says gives academics...
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Middlesex sacks Clark
Middlesex University has now formally dismissed Suzi Clark, its former head of media relations, a year after she was suspended over a row about academic free speech. She is to claim unfair dismissal...
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Another tribunal case is to be mounted by Ms Clark's colleague, Elizabeth Cott
* Another tribunal case is to be mounted by Ms Clark's colleague, Elizabeth Cott, the university's marketing planning manager who resigned without notice last week. She was joined by Joe Ormerod,...
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The University of North London
* The University of North London unfairly sacked lecturer Rob Slack for complaining about inaccuracies in a colleague's books. A tribunal awarded Mr Slack Pounds 13,000 last week, six months after...