Encounters of an unfair kind
Why do small subject areas and old universities do better in teaching quality assessments? In the second part of our analysis, Phil Baty questions peer review Academics acting as teaching quality...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Nearly 20 years after the British government took the controversial step of entering the fee-paying global higher education market, it seems the gamble has paid off. In 1980, there were 100,000...
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Demand for degrees out strips supply
France has belatedly started a determined campaign to catch up with its "Anglo-Saxon" competitors in the international market of higher education, setting out to entice foreign students, particularly...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Australian universities this year will ride on the promotion wagons of the Australian Tourist Commission to sell their wares around the world. For the first time, the nation's big education exporters...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...
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UK views crisis as opportunity to re-establish control
UK members of the European Parliament and academics involved in European education and training fear that Leonardo will inevitably be affected by the hiatus created by the resignation of the European...
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Exeter profited from link
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice-chancellor of Exeter University, acted as a Pounds 2,000-a-day consultant to the agency at the...
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What the report said
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit * Leonardo's initial tender specifications for a printing order were altered at the last minute so the firm Forma in Quarto...
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Leonardo ran with few checks
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit Question marks hang over the Leonardo da Vinci initiative to promote youth vocational training in the European Union - at...
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Mixed blessing
Students like web-based instruction but it has brought their tutors grief, according to a study reported in the Journal of Distance Education. Advantages cited by students include mastery of...
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2020 vision
Personalised lessons, safe virtual streets for children, virtual sports to include those with disabilities and 3D scans to detect and repair body "malfunctions" are among visions of life in 2020 from...
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Oxford double
Oxford University's Stuart Lee, Paul Groves and Chris Stephens won the teaching and learning section of the UCISA Web Awards, for their website on the war poet Wilfred Owen. The management...
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Stack 'em high, pitch 'em low
Darrel Ince argues that the brash computer publishing infecting our bookshops reflects a dangerous dumbing-down in computing A visit to Oxford has, until recently, been a pleasant experience: a walk...
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Madrid
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new education minister, has promised to give a new status to the country's 22,000 temporary lecturers but has not revealed the mechanism. Rectors proposed that the academics on...
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Don's Diary
Friday Research day. Spend morning straddling the chasm between acoustic phonetics and language acquisition listening to two-year-old Geordies discussing the merits or otherwise of the Teletubby...