Experts cash in on grades rush
Academics employed by the Quality Assurance Agency to assess higher education teaching are painting too rosy a picture, an expert has claimed. Universities are paying such academics up to Pounds 1,...
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Anger over public cash for private sector plan
Private higher education institutions will be able to claim public support from 2000 following a government review. But the plans have come under fire from both public and private institutions,...
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Britain plays central role in Pounds 3m digital library research link-up
A clutch of British universities are to play a major role in a ground-breaking international research initiative aimed at making the digital library a reality for academics worldwide. The first six...
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Honour for sectarian singalong rector splits St Andrews
Staff and students at St Andrews University have clashed over honouring QC Donald Findlay who recently resigned as vice- chairman of Rangers football club after leading a sectarian singalong. Mr...
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Scots to step up fees row
Scottish opposition parties will next week continue their bid to have tuition fees scrapped north of the border, despite an imminent review of student support, writes Olga Wojtas. Scottish Liberal...
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UCL group to launch ice-measuring satellite
A group from University College London is behind the first satellite to be launched in the European Space Agency's new Living Planet programme for earth observation. Called Cryosat, the satellite...
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UfI says 'back us with funds'
Ministers must pledge hundreds of millions of pounds more than they have already committed to expansion in further education if they are to realise their vision for a lifelong learning revolution,...
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Colleges gain more clout
Further education colleges will have a greater say in franchising arrangements under plans developed by funding council chiefs. The Higher Education Funding Council for England wants universities and...
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Pounds 11m ESRC package
An Pounds 11 million learning and teaching research programme is being mounted by the Economic and Social Research Council. Director Charles Desforges of Exeter University said that a large-scale...
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Rewards needed for business contacts
Collaboration with business should be recognised as a core activity of higher education in the same way that teaching and research are rewarded through assessment exercises, a Committee of Vice-...
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Porn bans whip up campuses
The Australian senate has narrowly passed legislation that will ban pornographic images and illegal material such as bomb-making instructions from being transmitted over the internet. Universities...
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Shelfless service
Borders, the second biggest book retailer in the US, will next year equip its bookstores with facilities for digitally printing books on demand. Besides ensuring that titles are never out of stock,...
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Cheats use net
A third of US university students use the internet to visit sexually explicit sites and 11 per cent to visit sites that describe how to make or use illegal drugs. The good news is that communications...
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Unis in spam ban
At least six of Australia's universities have been blacklisted as sources of junk email by Microsoft-owned internet provider WebTV. External spammers have allegedly been using relay holes in their...
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French strike e-journal deal
A consortium of French universities has used its purchasing power to slash the cost of electronic journal subscriptions in a landmark deal with the publisher Elsevier, University librarians are keen...