Why learning to destroy is learning to enjoy
Once the realm of techie males, engineering is at last attracting female students. And it's all thanks to an aggressive TV show, Robot Wars. Anne Sebba reports When Mike Duke, senior lecturer in...
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The building of a time machine
Charles Babbage staked everything on his attempt to build the first computer, and lost. Overcoming similar problems, Doron Swade is about to meet the Babbage challenge 150 years on A few years ago a...
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A new stage in Greek tragedy
When Fiona Shaw played Electra in 1982, the audience was moved to tears. Can we learn more from such a performance than we can from studying a play's text? Jennifer Wallace reports on an emerging...
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A varied syllabus with nothing at its core
In the future, lecturers in English will be reduced to teaching grammar to economists and engineers, predicts Valentine Cunningham in the second of our series on subjects after the year 2000 English...
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Tuition cost hits assistants' purse
The University of Toronto's 2,500 teaching assistants are starting their semester on the picket line. They are joining colleagues at McMaster University in nearby Hamilton who have been on strike...
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Islamic links
The Encyclopaedia of Islam is available on CD-Rom and makes use of cross-referencing hyperlinks previously unseen in electronic publishing. It contains indexes with hyperlinks to main text and allows...
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V-cs submit to quality blueprint
Vice-chancellors and principals have caved in over plans for reporting the quality of university teaching, accepting a blueprint they condemned as "unacceptable" just weeks ago. The climbdown by the...
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Unions demand 46 days' leave minimum
Scottish unions and management are poised for a crunch meeting on Wednesday in a bid to stave off potential disruption at seven institutions. The management at Scotland's five new universities, Queen...
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Team picked to save Earth from asteroids
Three experts have been appointed to a "near-earth object" task force to assess the potential danger to the earth from asteroid strikes, the government announced this week. The committee will be...
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Girls try harder to beat the boys, study shows
Girls outperform boys at GCSE level partly because they know they have to try harder to make the grade in the male-dominated workplace, according to new research. Becky Francis, at Greenwich...
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Graduates urged to shape own destinies
Northern Ireland's new graduates should set their sights on becoming entrepreneurs rather than bureaucrats, Robert Cormack, pro vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, told a graduation...
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Student Loans Company errors scrutinised
Registrars and student finance officers are compiling lists of problems that universities have experienced with the Student Loans Company. Difficulties identified so far include errors being...
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Blair education target comes under fire
Shadow education secretary Theresa May today attacked Tony Blair's 50 per cent higher education target. Ms May, who was due to speak at the North of England Education Conference, said that the target...
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Universities transfer courses to improve
* Dundee's two universities have signed a "strategic realignment" agreement to transfer courses between them, backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Five management and consumer...
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Inspectors find college 'overstated' strengths
Dunstable College has joined the growing ranks of failing colleges, with "less than satisfactory" inspection grades for management and quality control. The Bedfordshire college was also given the...