Spoilt for multichoice
If the procedures in the example below are followed, students soon cease to guess. With five possible answers, the odds of getting the right answer are not worth the risk of guessing. Rubric: Select...
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Blind injustice
Now that the goods and services part of the Disability Discrimination Act is in force, should not textbook publishers offer their books in CD format for visually impaired and other students who rely...
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Motorola's call
Government support of workplace degrees is welcome. At Glasgow Caledonian University, workplace learning has been progressively and successfully developed since 1992. Candidates who complete their...
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Higher degrees of disturbance
Students' mental health is suffering under the stresses of mass education. Colin Lago looks at how sympathetic staff can ease the burdens. The notion that "student days are the best ones of your life...
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Pounds 50m of grant goes west
The lion's share of the Pounds 68 million provided by chancellor Gordon Brown to set up the pioneering partnership between Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will go...
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Leeds has plan to end town-gown animosity
Tensions caused by the town-gown split found in most university towns could be a thing of the past in Leeds, thanks to an initiative aimed at improving the relationship between locals and the city's...
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Agency gives food serious thought
The East Midlands Development Agency has joined forces with a clutch of further and higher education institutions to create a multimillion pound regional research and training campus specialising in...
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Radical part-time PhD plan fails to impress
Fear of dumbing down has blighted Cambridge University's decision to offer part-time PhDs for the first time. A professor has complained that the plan is "grudging", with "dismaying" elements, writes...
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Too much theory, laments inventor
James Dyson, multi-millionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, is fiercely critical of what he regards as a damaging shift towards "an overly theoretical, navel-gazing" approach to the...
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Design primed for RAE
Design departments are more intent than ever before on showing off the quality of their research for the forthcoming research assessment exercise, writes Kam Patel. Optimism about the health of...
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Strike row over 5-minute marking
Staff and students have attacked a "degrees 'R' us mentality" at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, claiming that planned new workloads for business school academics allow only five...
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Fishel judgment puts an end to 'blind-eye' culture
The case of Nottingham vs Dr Fishel (right) highlights the need for clear guidelines governing academics' commercial pursuits, if talent is not to be driven out. Steve Farrar reports. There are many...
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IVF pioneer had been profiting from the work of university's researchers
The High Court judgment by Mr Justice Elias raises key issues potentially affecting all university academics who carry out external paid research work. His draft judgment illuminates the grey world...
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Elite few dominate in funding expansion
Funding allocations, full details, pages I-IV Large, research-led universities will take the lion's share of extra students enrolling next year as part of the expansion of higher education. In his...
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Non-sexist harassment
'The critical finding, in our view, was that Professor Xydeas treated his subordinates evenhandedly, that is badly, without discriminating between the sexes' Manchester University has been cleared of...