iPlace or yours?
A "smart" apartment built to test ways that technology will be used in homes of the future has been created at Essex University. The two-bedroom apartment - called the iDorm2 - will be unveiled next...
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Blue-chip birthday
The UK's most expensive degree programme has celebrated its tenth anniversary. London Business School's ten-month masters in finance (MiF) course costs Pounds 28,000. LBS attracts more than 120 full-...
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Correction
The research paper Falling down Ladders and Charming Snakes referred to in the news report "Project lifts the hood on male dropouts" ( Times Higher , July 1) was undertaken by four universities -...
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Correction
* Last week, we reported that under a Welsh Assembly proposal, from 2007 the poorest Welsh students studying in Wales will be exempt from paying Pounds 1,200 tuition fees and will receive a £1,800...
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A communal space for group study that's available round the clock
Warwick University's "learning grid" is an open-learning space that students can use any time, day or night, individually or in groups, to polish teambuilding, problem-solving or presentation skills...
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Pair up lonely learners to improve study, HEA told
Universities should go back to basics and organise more contact between students, the first Higher Education Academy annual conference heard last week. Craig McInnis, professor of higher education at...
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Call for RAE to recognise e-learning
Diana Laurillard, head of the Government's e-learning strategy unit, called on academics at the Higher Education Academy annual conference last week to ensure the panels for the next research...
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Council to bar students from new housing
Students will be "banned" from living on a housing development near Loughborough University under a legal agreement being negotiated by council planners. Under the terms of a proposed planning...
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G8 urged to back alliances
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports G8 leaders are being challenged this week to revitalise African higher education via a ten-year programme drawn up by...
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Modern Scots wisdom for v-cs
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports Forty minutes drive from Gleneagles is Abertay Dundee University, which has just finished hosting a five-day...
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Hi-tech weapon in Aids battle
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports The first comprehensive guide on Aids awareness in South Africa has emerged from a ten-year partnership between four...
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Rural network blossoms
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports The University of Fort Hare, the Open University and the Egyptian Ministry of Education have teamed up to bridge the...
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Flagship institute set to ask for more cash
Chancellor Gordon Brown's flagship project linking Cambridge University with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will have to ask the Government for more cash, despite previous assurances that...
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Budding stars get full picture
Higher education landed a starring role in the British film industry this week with the launch of a network of academies to train everyone from set builders to movie moguls. Skillset, the sector...
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Winchester success boosts bids for university status
Four higher education colleges are on the home straight to gaining university status following news that University College Winchester has succeeded in its bid to become the University of Winchester...