I reckon my one is better than yours
As the Institute for Learning and Teaching opens, Alison Utley asks students to grade lecturers The Institute for Learning and Teaching finally opened its doors this week, beginning the long-awaited...
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The THES Diary
Gambling man Announcing Pounds 2.5 million worth of cuts recently, Liverpool John Moores University vice-chancellor Peter Toyne quipped that one way of solving the cash crisis could be to gamble...
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Lagos
Students suspected of membership of rival secret cults shot and killed an assistant registrar of Nigeria's Delta State University and his wife at their home in Abraka. Some students have been...
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Software for GPs' surgeries
John Fox is working to make sure that computers make life easier for doctors. Geoff Watts reports. You probably know the despair of seeing your computer respond to a simple command with an...
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High-flying lecturers wooed with lucrative awards
A new Pounds 1 million per year award scheme is about to be launched for outstanding lecturers Outstanding lecturers will be eligible for a share of a new Pounds 1 million scheme designed to...
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The Cambridge effect
Most of the firms in Britain's 'Silicon Valley' are Cantab creations. Kam Patel reports Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge University spin-off established ten years ago, has emerged as the fastest...
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Sheffield in freemason pact
The freemasons have been in secret negotiations with Sheffield University to set up a multimillion-pound research centre to "promote the interests of freemasonry", The THES can reveal. The university...
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Camel trek
(Photograph) - Camel trek: Cambridge University DPhil student and Kenyan nomad Joseph Galgalo sets off from Oxford University with Jonny the Camel on a charity trek to Cambridge University. The...
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Europe aims for greater student mobility
Ministers from 29 European countries have agreed on a 10-year plan to eliminate obstacles to student mobility and graduate employment. This week they signed the Bologna declaration, which they...
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Librarians attack copyright proposals
University librarians have slated a draft copyright directive drawn up by the European Commission as being "even worse" for staff and students than its predecessor. Fred Friend of the Standing...
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Innovation motivation
Lecturers trying out new teaching methods run the risk of being labelled eccentric. Be brave, say Andrew Hannan and Harold Silver Innovation means many things to many people. For some it is radical,...
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Agony aunt
One of my tutees overloads herself with extracurricular work, which she says is essential for her career development. As a result, she never meets my deadlines. How do I treat her fairly? Time...
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MSPs pull back from motion to axe fees
There is widespread relief in Scotland's universities and colleges that the Scottish Parliament has backed off from a proposal to axe tuition fees, which institutions feared would hit their funding....
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Post-16 scene shake-up
New sub-regional bodies could call the shots in post-16 education as part of a fundamental restructuring of further education and training due to be announced by government next week. It is thought...
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College, sixth-form funding gap closes
The funding gap between school sixth forms and their poorer college counterparts will be halved under new funding plans for 16-19 study. The Further Education Funding Council intends to reshuffle...