Universities and the NHS forge a healthy alliance
It is time to strengthen the strategic links between higher education and healthcare, argues Howard Newby There has never been a more important time for higher education and the National Health...
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Call for national policy on online learning
The government should ensure that the nascent e-University and institutions offering online learning adopt "networked" e-learning that focuses on communication and interaction between students and...
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Second shot at cup
David Beckham's team are not England's only football hope in the Far East. Plymouth University is flying the flag in the 2002 Robot Football World Cup, which began in Seoul yesterday. Mark Norman,...
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Scrubbing up well?
Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol, last week spent 90 minutes shadowing a cleaner to promote adult learners week. Surely the cleaner should have been shadowing the vice-...
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Untamed truth
The battle between a Victorian author and his publisher over a novel about female medical students is revealed in a book by academic David Finkelstein. Dr Finkelstein, head of the media and...
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Next week
News Spin to win? Are university spin-offs the answer to cash problems? Features What does the monarchy mean to you? Academics from Afghanistan to Jordan and the UK give their views. Glenn Murcutt in...
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Scots seek strategy to join the RAE elite
Scottish ministers need to look at their strategy linking research to economic development in the wake of Scotland's absence from the research elite in the latest research assessment exercise. This...
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Grant for AHRB fellows rises to match salaries
Researchers in the creative and performing arts will be able to apply for the cost of their full salary following a review of the Arts and Humanities Research Board fellowship scheme. The three-year...
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Aberdeen lends home to Scots Parliament
Aberdeen University will next week make history by housing the Scottish Parliament. The 129 MSPs are moving north to Aberdeen's King's College conference centre to allow their Edinburgh premises to...
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Rainbow fund to help spin-offs to pot of gold
The government has launched its first seed-capital fund, designed to help start spin-off companies from public research laboratories. The £4 million Rainbow fund will make investments in individual...
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Champion sought for post-16 learning unit
The government announced this week that it is seeking a "further education champion" to run a new unit devoted to raising standards in post-16 learning. The unit will be responsible for standards and...
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Woman withdraws case against principal
Elaine McGonigle, a former St Andrews University employee who accused principal Brian Lang of sexual harassment and bullying, this week settled her dispute with the university only minutes before the...
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Hefce names teachers at the top of their class
Twenty lecturers who have won £50,000 each in the third annual national teaching fellowship scheme run by the Higher Education Funding Council for England were announced this week. They are: Diane...
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Linguist analyses how jokes raise a laugh
Graeme Ritchie of Edinburgh University's division of informatics is taking a serious look at how jokes work, dismantling and analysing the language they use. He hopes to take existing concepts from...
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Lack of support kills dreams
Schools and the costs of study are turning young people off higher education, it emerged this week. The supposedly elitist image of universities is not to blame. A MORI poll published on Wednesday...