AllLearn goes off-line
Oxford University confirmed this week that it has closed AllLearn, the not-for-profit online education venture it had set up with Standford and Yale universities. It said: "After five years the cost...
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Confucius in Edinburgh
Edinburgh University is to host Scotland's first Confucius Institute, a centre to promote study of the Chinese language and a greater understanding of its literary culture, history and business. The...
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Warwick tops awards
Warwick University is the biggest winner in the second round of Science and Innovation Awards announced by the Government last week. The university won £8.8 million of £.7 million available to help...
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Correction
In The Times Higher league table of vice-chancellors' pay we incorrectly stated that Michael Goldstein of Coventry University earned £163,525 in 2004-05. In fact, Madeleine Atkins, who took over the...
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Personnel heads cool on rush for promotion
Framework hopes are likely to be dashed, finds Tony Tysome Hopes of brighter promotion prospects for academics as a new pay and grading structure rolls out are likely to be dashed, The Times Higher...
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Scots delight in record rise
Academics north of the border this week heard that there would be inflation-beating increases in funding for teaching and research in all 20 Scottish higher education institutions. The Scottish...
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Hotshots on ice eye Olympics
In 1860, a group of English veterans from the Crimean War hit a small "puck" -or circular rubber disc - across the frozen expanse of Kingston harbour in Ontario, Canada. The fastest game on Earth -...
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Welsh fret as grants inch up
Welsh universities were facing an uncertain future this week as grant allocations barely rose above the rate of inflation. The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales announced allocations...
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'European MIT' gets short shrift in UK
Vice-chancellors and politicians are fighting behind the scenes to overturn "misconceived" plans for a European Institute of Technology. The European Commission has already conceded that the...
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Cut-throat RAE rivalry makes filling vacancies even harder
Fierce competition for staff in the run-up to the research assessment exercise is making it difficult for universities to fill job vacancies, employers reported this week. A quarter of higher...
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British students prefer to learn on home ground
British students are continuing to shun universities in other European countries, according to figures from the Europe-wide student exchange scheme. Despite rising numbers of students from other...
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Pervasive probe
Researchers at Wolverhampton University are working on the next big thing in computers - pervasive computing. The future lies in small networks of intelligent wireless systems, says Elena Gaura,...
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Push to publish 'leads to fraud'
Researchers are under such pressure to publish papers in top journals that they are being driven to fraudulent practices, it was claimed last week. Leading academics argued that more researchers were...
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Belgian law aims to cut foreign enrolment by degrees
Authorities in French-speaking Belgium will extend consultation on a new law limiting the number of foreign students enrolling on undergraduate courses including veterinary medicine and physiotherapy...
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Rain stops fair play for college hopefuls
A mistake in the scoring of the principal university admissions exam has thrown the whole process into chaos only days before US high school students were to learn whether they had been admitted to...