Points for key skills on the cards
NUMERACY, communication and other key skills, could become university entry requirements under a new admissions system, writes Phil Baty. The University and Colleges Admissions Service has been...
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Markers lose touch
STANDARDS in higher education are under threat because academics have little time to debate marking and assessment, a report has warned, writes Tony Tysome. Higher education has grown and diversified...
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Man catches politician in Web job
"Prime minister, aren't you, rather than Labour, the party divided on Europe?" At John Major's morning election press conference last Tuesday the media were joined by Gareth Pickering, a London...
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It's not what you say
Too late now, we know, but here is the definitive advice on how you should have voted yesterday. The key factor was not Europe but Esperanto, according to the Esperanto Lobby, which billed the...
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Odd referrals
Third and last in our series of implausible election claims comes not from a candidate, but an academic taking part in our recent opinion poll. Undaunted by the minor consideration that Sir James...
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Tall rail tales
Hard-up students at Bradford University must hope their local Labour parliamentary candidate will be keeping to pre election pledges if he has won a seat in Parliament this week. Marsha Singh, Labour...
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Complete with tumours
Dundee University is a museum it's official. The university has just been awarded official museum status by the Museums and Galleries Commission for its collections of specimens and artefacts,...
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Send them to Siberia
Tired of Emma, Four Weddings and a Funeral and the highlights of Chester City's 1994/95 season? Somewhere in Novosibirsk is a video machine that wants them. The business school there needs old videos...
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Blair's a pretty mover
Alumnus to be proud of No. 100 is a novelist more famed for non-stop bestselling action than the subtle appositeness of his characterisation. We think this view of Wilbur Smith is unfair, and base...
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Internet power plug
Academics have woken up to the political power of electronic media, Internet-based academic network Nexus said this week, writes Phil Baty. The new government faces an academic community with a...
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Staying up late with Tony Blair
Tony Blair's political career has not come as a great surprise to an ex-academic in a good position to know. Today Geoff Gallop, a fellow student at St John's, Oxford in the early 1970s, is also a...
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Whitehall in waiting
FAR FROM being a period of peaceful interregnum, election time is one when civil servants are working almost as furiously as their would-be political masters. Whoever takes office early next week,...
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Staff and Education Development Association
SEDA was set up in 1993 when the Standing Conference on Educational Development joined with the SRHE's Staff Development Group in order to develop a professional standard in higher education teaching...
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Reform pace upsets geologists
RAPID and radical restructuring at the historic Geological Society of London is causing concern among fellows who say they are not being consulted. A letter to the president and officers of the...
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Universities and Colleges Staff Development Agency
UCoSDA is an agency of the CVCP and was set up in 1989. Its main role is to carry out research and promote continuing professional development among academics. It has published a number of reports,...