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,...
VICECHANCELLORS have set up a working party to thrash out a policy on the formal training of lecturers in a bid to head off compulsory licensing of academics after the Dearing inquiry reports. The...
THE POLICE have been called to the Royal Academy of Music following a flurry of "scurrilous" faxes. Originating from inside the academy and signed by "RAM staff", the faxes have been sent to the...
AN INTERNATIONAL science collaboration programme, heavily used by British academics, may get help from the Geological Society following the withdrawal of United Kingdom government funding, writes...
MANDATORY drug testing in prison is failing, according to research at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Prisons must test between 5 and 10 per cent of their inmates each month. A...
PARENTS whose children have a life-threatening illness usually have to learn by trial and error the medical care that must be carried out at home to keep their offspring alive, a study has found....
VOLCANO risk management is as much an issue for sociologists, economists and educationists as it is for geologists, the Geological Society conference was told. Flavio Dobran, of the Global Volcanic...
The Italian higher education ministry has responded to growing international criticism of its treatment of foreign language lecturers in its universities. The official report on the professional...
Three years ago, Rome's once-glorious Central Restoration Institute seemed doomed to slide into apathy and mediocrity, a victim of mismanagement and of appointments dictated by politics rather than...
THE PRO-FATAH shabiba (youth branch) emerged victorious from this month's student council elections at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah in the West Bank. The clear endorsement of Fatah and the pro-...
THE REFORM of the student support system in France has been shelved following the snap call of parliamentary elections. President Jacques Chirac's decision to seek a new mandate came as pressure...
A group of top European business schools this week launched a European Quality Improvement System which aims to establish a clear and internationally recognised elite within the business school...
ON THE final day of a court hearing that has become known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", the judge questioned whether the federal court in Sydney should have been involved and asked if...
HONG KONG'S legislative council last month voted to ease restrictions which would have forced medical students who had graduated overseas to take a further examination before practising in Hong Kong...
A German court has ruled that a university cannot bar a student even though he has been studying for 40 years without ever obtaining a degree. The University of Freiburg, in southwest Germany, had...