Auditors attack EU agency
A humiliating attack on the management of the European Union's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been published by the EU Court of Auditors, Brussels' financial watchdog. The report criticises long-...
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Coventry praised for new technology ethos
The Quality Assurance Agency has given Coventry University star marks for its innovative use of new technology in teaching and learning, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The QAA report on the university's...
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Glasgow's research nets Pounds 1,000 a minute
Glasgow University has won a record Pounds 100 million in new research grants and contracts this year, a month before the end of the financial year. This compares with Pounds 69 million last year,...
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Inflated value
(Photograph) - Student Darren Walker emerges from Abode, the inflatable shelter for the homeless he spent seven months designing and producing as his final-year project on the computer-aided design...
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Bafta heralds UK as online Hollywood
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has added a new category in its annual awards, aiming to create a "beacon of excellence" for online learning. Bafta believes the UK can become the...
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Queen's students dial up for results
Gone are the days when students at Queen's University, Belfast, had to trek to the "wailing wall" at the back of the Lanyon Building to check if their exam results had been published. In a pioneering...
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Alumnus award on video link between Strathclyde University and Silicon Valley
(Photograph) - A video link between Strathclyde University and Silicon Valley in the US enabled principal Sir John Arbuthnott to honour Arthur van Hoff as alumnus of the year. Mr van Hoff, who...
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Scottish colleges ask for more as fund is revamped
Scotland is revamping its innovative Pounds 11 million "proof of concept" fund, which has produced funding for only nine out of 83 research projects in the first round. University leaders say this...
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FEs offer skills for free
CollegeNet, a consortium of seven colleges of further education, has launched a free scheme to help people in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as individuals, to learn new online...
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Fleshed out authors
More than 200 internet writers converged on Nottingham Trent University this week for one of the biggest "flesh" meetings of cyberauthors in the country. The three-day event attracted more than 40...
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Vintage information
A patented production technique that uses microwaves to penetrate corks has been developed by Portuguese, German and Spanish SMEs working with a German research institute. The project was funded by...
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Spoken here
The British Council has launched a website designed to enable learners of all levels and ages to practise English. There are three learning zones: kids, teens and adults. When users enter they are...
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Further facts
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has launched a new online database, InFact, giving detailed information on student enrolments in Scotland's 47 further education colleges. It includes...
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The genome is just the start for biology
In its early days, cynics often termed the Human Genome Project an advanced case of "physics envy" - the biologists' lust for a big project to rival the particle accelerators and space telescopes of...
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An isolated academy is no good for democracy
Academics should put politics aside and reach out to Serbia's long-suffering intellectuals, writes Dejan Djokic Exactly two years after the Serbian parliament ended the autonomy of universities, the...