A signal of success
Southampton University is receiving Pounds 210,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to support its innovative MSc course in applied digital signal processing. Distance-...
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Nottingham skills cash
The University of Nottingham is receiving Pounds 450,000 for building key skills training into the curriculum. The cash is part of an Pounds 8 million initiative by the higher education and...
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Fellows in teaching
The University of Teesside has appointed its first teaching fellows. The appointments are aimed at academics who wish to specialise in teaching, offering an equivalent career progression to...
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The fun and games economist
When Caroline Elliott's name was entered for the Pilkington Teaching Award she had to submit four years' worth of student assessments on her performance. Until then, she had no idea that her lectures...
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Yeovil's check-up
Yeovil College is investing Pounds 3 million in new facilities for further education. The chairman of the Further Education Funding Council, Lord Davies of Oldham, is to visit Yeovil College later...
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Schooled in the abacus
Maths teachers in Malaysia are all to receive "mental abacus arithmetic" (MAA) training in a move to elevate the level of maths and science across the country. More than 200 teacher trainers are...
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Judge training videos
The video training arm of the College of Law - Legal Network Television - has won a contract to produce 2,000 training video tapes for part-time civil judges on the civil justice reforms contained in...
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Geology elite expands
Courses in Kingston University's School of geological sciences have been awarded accreditation status by the Geological Society - making it one of only five universities in the United Kingdom to have...
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Spelling bee stings
Danish university students are furious over a new ministerial order stipulating that spelling and grammar must be included when assignments are assessed. "Whether the students can spell is not...
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Homework motivators
Primary school pupils will be pleased to hear that research at the Institute of Education reveals that homework is not always a good thing. Susan Hallam and Richard Cowan told the education Section...
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Star Turn
Alison Utley sits in as the cling-film man of geology tells his Open University students how plant fossils can reveal the earth's climate of 100 million years ago After a quick rub down with a towel...
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Devolution threatens worldwide standing
Vice-chancellors have voiced fears that devolution and regional policies could undermine the international standing of British higher education. They are worried that devolved powers in Scotland and...
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Malaysian students back threatened deputy leader
University students and academics in their thousands have surrounded the home of Malaysia's sacked deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim in a show of support that is preventing his arrest, writes Geoffrey...
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Competition pushes gene project deadline forward
Researchers are intending to accelerate the international project to identify all of our 100,000 genes. At a meeting this week in the United States, the heads of the $3 billion human genome project...
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Monkey doodle dandy?
Monkey Painting