Association of Scottish Colleges
The Happy coupling of further and higher education could give birth to a funding council merger The Association of Scottish Colleges calculates that more than a quarter of Scotland's higher education...
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Merger risks a drift in FE college missions
A headlong rush to merge the higher and further education sectors could undermine colleges' educational distinctiveness and distort the nation's skills profile, it has been claimed. The Association...
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Two-plus-two gets buzzing
Two-plus-two is the buzz phrase in the world where further and higher education meet. Early in his inquiry into the future of higher education, Sir Ron Dearing sent a team over to Chicago to explore...
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Derby pay boycott
THE University of Derby faced a virtual siege this week as the Association of University Teachers asked its members to support an academic boycott by fellow union Natfhe. Natfhe initiated its boycott...
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Support for research on meat virus
THE Pennington inquiry, set up after 18 people died in central Scotland in one of the world's worst outbreaks of E.coli poisoning, has given its support for more research into the virulent organism....
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One-force theory 'coming soon'
PHYSICIST, Stephen Hawking, this week gave a "fifty-fifty" chance of researchers finding, within the next 20 years, a single theory to explain the relationship between all the fundamental forces of...
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Union shuns retirement idea
LECTURERS' union Natfhe is pressing ahead with its High Court challenge to Government plans to change early retirement rules. The union was expected to seek leave to apply for judicial review of the...
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Molecular databases go global
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....
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Girl power
London's Queen Mary and Westfield College will set up online discussions and videoconferences for hundreds of schoolgirls aged 14 to 15, in an effort to encourage girls to take computing courses in...
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Box clever
A student at Kings College London has won a prize worth Pounds 3,000 for inventing a system which brings email to people in their homes using their television sets. Alan Sutton devised software that...
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Sarajevo story
Teesside Tertiary College and multimedia company YITM are inviting schools and colleges across Europe to relive the crucial events of July 1914 over a period of 24 hours. Beginning at 10 am on 30...
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Plant saves planet
THE RECENT Science Week highlighted some interesting web sites. Southampton University (www.soc.soton. ac.uk/SUDO/tt/eh) has beautiful pictures of Emiliania huxleyi, a tiny sea plant which could save...
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Ted Nelson arrives at Southampton University for the Hypertext 97 conference
(Photograph) - Ted Nelson arrives at Southampton University for the Hypertext 97 conference, where tonight he will speak on a live video link to the sixth international World Wide Web conference in...
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V-cs embrace virtual futures with edge of rivalry
THE potential delights and possible dangers of cyberspace are attracting the attention of Australia's most senior academics. Drawn by the prospect of using the Internet to teach courses more cheaply...
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MAN-to-MAN conversations link video tutorial experiments
High-speed links in Scotland have enabled researchers to develop distributed innovative learning resources over several campuses. In February, four Scottish universities began an 18-month experiment...