Queen's students dial up for results
Gone are the days when students at Queen's University, Belfast, had to trek to the "wailing wall" at the back of the Lanyon Building to check if their exam results had been published. In a pioneering...
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Alumnus award on video link between Strathclyde University and Silicon Valley
(Photograph) - A video link between Strathclyde University and Silicon Valley in the US enabled principal Sir John Arbuthnott to honour Arthur van Hoff as alumnus of the year. Mr van Hoff, who...
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Scottish colleges ask for more as fund is revamped
Scotland is revamping its innovative Pounds 11 million "proof of concept" fund, which has produced funding for only nine out of 83 research projects in the first round. University leaders say this...
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FEs offer skills for free
CollegeNet, a consortium of seven colleges of further education, has launched a free scheme to help people in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as individuals, to learn new online...
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Fleshed out authors
More than 200 internet writers converged on Nottingham Trent University this week for one of the biggest "flesh" meetings of cyberauthors in the country. The three-day event attracted more than 40...
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Vintage information
A patented production technique that uses microwaves to penetrate corks has been developed by Portuguese, German and Spanish SMEs working with a German research institute. The project was funded by...
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Spoken here
The British Council has launched a website designed to enable learners of all levels and ages to practise English. There are three learning zones: kids, teens and adults. When users enter they are...
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Further facts
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has launched a new online database, InFact, giving detailed information on student enrolments in Scotland's 47 further education colleges. It includes...
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The genome is just the start for biology
In its early days, cynics often termed the Human Genome Project an advanced case of "physics envy" - the biologists' lust for a big project to rival the particle accelerators and space telescopes of...
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An isolated academy is no good for democracy
Academics should put politics aside and reach out to Serbia's long-suffering intellectuals, writes Dejan Djokic Exactly two years after the Serbian parliament ended the autonomy of universities, the...
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Bretton Hall under inquiry
Daniel Stone, financial director of Bretton Hall College in Wakefield, has been suspended while an inquiry is carried out for the Higher Education Funding Council, putting pressure on the college's...
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Gambling rise a lottery legacy
The number of households gambling more than 10 per cent of their weekly income has quadrupled since the introduction of the National Lottery, a new study has found. Analysis of official data by Paul...
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Sheffield College set to axe 180 jobs
Lecturers' union leaders have condemned as "educational vandalism" plans to axe 180 jobs at Britain's biggest further education college, writes Tony Tysome. Representatives of Natfhe, the college...
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Voices unite against top-up fees
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
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Plan for 'instant' degrees abandoned
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....