A lone voice (2)
The problem with the Quality Assurance Agency's qualifications framework is its failure to distinguish between different kinds of qualifications. Vocational qualifications are taught mainly through...
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A non-exodus
The number of full-time undergraduates from Northern Ireland on courses in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland has not risen by 64 per cent over the past decade to 38,414 in 1999-2000 as you...
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Lessons from the US (1)
MP Barry Sheerman suggests that universities need to set up professional student recruitment offices ("US policy inspires UK team", THES , October ). What does he think universities...
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Lessons from the US(2)
Barry Sheerman is correct that we can learn from US universities on access initiatives and financial support for poorer students. Tuition fees and loss of grants means we must refine recruitment...
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Help firms to open up
Universities should teach future captains of industry how to act ethically, says Carol Adams. As business has become internationalised and multinationals have grown to sizes unimaginable a few...
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Why I... won't be filling in my research transparency review form
Hugh Stephenson. Lecturer, department of journalism. City University I looked quickly through the research transparency review time allocation schedule when I found it in my pigeonhole in April and...
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Man is messing up the climate so let's act now
Floods are proof enough that the UK must respond to its change in weather, says Merylyn McKenzie Hedger. At a recent forum on the south coast, the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and others...
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Net is on course for a hot guide
As the first member of her family to go to university, Amanda Gregory fully appreciates the liberating power of higher education. She is also aware that the wrong choice can be both financially and...
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Iberian spin-offs start to spring up
Spin-off companies are starting to appear in Spain and Portugal after link-ups between industry and universities. Chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay is involved in two new spin-offs in the...
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Better red
A graphic poster designed by Attik ( www.attik.com </a> ) that will help to launch an 'internet bloodbank' on Monday. D&AD (British Design and Art Direction) has linked with image...
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Students seek perfect match
Dundee College has launched a service that uses dating agency technology to help students find jobs. The on-campus Job Service for Students will use a database to match eligible students with...
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Elite recruit
Wolverhampton University e-learning professor Steve Molyneux is the only European representative to be invited to join an elite new think-tank. The United States' National Science Foundation is...
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Research hotel
The way people cope with information displayed by machines is to come under the microscope at the University of Abertay's new Electronic, Photonic and Information Control Centre (Epicentre). The...
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Heads for a fall
Students are confident about their abilities to comprehend what is involved in original research, according to a survey by Headfiller, a student website from Blackwells. But lecturers asked to...
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Fatal replay
Technology developed at the University of Nottingham, similar to that used in movies such as Jurassic Park and The Matrix, will be used in a UK courtroom to transport the coroner, jury and witnesses...