Gates and MIT join forces
Microsoft is to spend $25 million turning the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a living laboratory for the development and testing of new teaching models and educational tools. The company...
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Student gets aid to fight 'false claim' suit
An undergraduate has been granted legal aid to seek damages against Northumbria University in a claim for breach of contract and for the "negligent misstatements of facts" in the university's...
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SA sets up troubleshooter system
The South African government is to clamp down firmly on troubled universities and technikons by granting the education minister power to appoint administrators to run mismanaged institutions for up...
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The standard of written English among some of my new under-graduates is truly awful. Is there a simple way of tackling this?
Cordelia Bryan Director of the Speak Write project at Anglia Polytechnic This is a problem we come across frequently right across higher education. That is not necessarily to say the problem is...
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Reflect on the inner 'I'
WHAT. Keeping study notebooks or diaries helps students and staff deepen understanding and think critically, writes Jennifer Moon. WHAT. Students can reflect on their studies. Lecturers can use them...
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A parental figure when you leave home
Tom Hodgkinson, 21, third-year maths,Glasgow University Everyone needs a personal tutor. They are the parental figure you need when you move away from home, someone you can turn to when you get into...
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By George, they've got it
A mannequin is at the centre of a pioneering computer-aided nurse teaching pilot. Olga Wojtas reports George Morgan, 22, has been taken by ambulance to accident and emergency after being found...
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Comfort in that personal touch
Nicky Stanley and Jill Manthorpe argue that the one-to-one relationship of student and tutor needs to be cultivated and not pruned because of pressures The role of personal tutor can be a thankless...
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A proof of papal fallibility
Hitler's Pope
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Good intentions, poor credibility
Un'idea dell'Europa [An Idea of Europe]
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who said goodbyes to both a city and his country: " My first impression was that the...
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The mind in its own place
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
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Making the fantasy fit
Subject to Biography
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Layman's guide to defining evil men
Bad Boys, Bad Men
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Fugue-itive minds and bodies
Mad Travellers