Northern Dance gets lift from affiliation
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance is to become affiliated to the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. The school is regarded as the leading contemporary dance school outside London and teaches...
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Show your art, institutions told
Universities do not make the most of their museum collections, keeping them for select researchers rather than opening them up for teaching purposes. As the University of East Anglia's Sainsbury...
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FE-business venture seals export deal
Further education colleges have teamed up with equipment suppliers to open a multimillion-pound international market. Colleges are offering training as part of a package to help foreign teaching...
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CVU may validate two-year degrees
The Council of Validating Universities has emerged as a leading candidate to represent higher education in Foundation Degree Forward, the body that will offer a national validation service for...
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Cranfield pitches in to help the FA tackle turf
The Football Association is leaving no stone, or turf, unturned in its strategy to win back the World Cup - or any major international trophy for that matter. It has turned to the science of surfaces...
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MPs tell Nerc to justify 'mess'
The Natural Environment Research Council admitted last week that it could have handled last year's financial crisis better. The council was called before the Commons science and technology committee...
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Role of new teaching academy still unclear
A yellow honeycomb logo represents a network that has rapidly established itself in UK higher education over the past three years. Through its work with staff to aid and improve their teaching it has...
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Findings: Mice signpost the way home
Wood mice use a "Hansel and Gretel" approach to find their way around while out exploring, according to Oxford University researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. David Macdonald and Pavel Stopka of...
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Sars curbs Antipodean recruitment drive in Asia
A drop in recruitment of overseas students to universities in New Zealand and Australia due to the Sars epidemic could have a devastating knock-on effect for the institutions' incomes. The...
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Mathematician on course to be Wits' first black v-c
The University of Wi****ersrand is close to appointing Rhodes scholar and mathematician Loyiso Nongxa as its first black vice-chancellor. Professor Nongxa is currently acting vice-chancellor of the...
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Rome
The Italian government is to finance 3,500 extra Socrates/ Erasmus scholarships, bringing the total to 14,000. It will also more than double research grants to a total of 8,000. The €75 million (£26...
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Nouakchott
Mauritanian security forces have arrested students and university lecturers regarded as sympathetic to the Ba'ath Party of Saddam Hussein. Police claim pro-Iraqi elements in the university were...
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Paris
The City Hall has launched a trilingual website for foreign students who want to study in and around the French capital. It advises on general and academic life in the region, learning French, visas...
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Bangkok
The Thai cabinet has approved new funding of Baht464 million (£6,776,000) for research and development of biotechnology projects, to be administered through the National Centre for Genetic...
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Melbourne
Two groups of Croatian doctors and nurses are to take a specially designed 14-week course in emergency medicine at the University of Melbourne.