History in the measuring
Thirteen historians met last week to hammer out how to define standards in their subject. The 13 historians make up the subject's benchmarking group, which will contribute to the Quality Assurance...
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X marks the sweet spot for Web's future
Dan Brickley reports from Brisbane on the seventh World Wide Web conference The hassle-free future of communication via the Net became visibly clearer at the recent World Wide Web conference in...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges Two lecturers accused of "gross misconduct" claim they did not get a "fair trial" from college...
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Unions put pay top of the agenda
PAY will dominate the annual conferences of academic and academic-related staff unions that kick off this week. Unison Unison, which holds its conference for university and college members tomorrow,...
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Water work
(Photograph) - Jonathan Priddey, an applied sciences student at the University of Wolverhampton, examines some of the riverbed inhabitants on Shropshire's River Tern. Next year he will travel to...
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Sir Anthony Cleaver
Sir Anthony Cleaver, chairman of science and engineering innovation company AEA Technology, will take over as MRC chairman in October, when Sir David Plaistow retires.
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Data bank
Twelve African universities are now participating in the World Bank's African Virtual University project, receiving live lectures from Ireland and the United States.
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Signal achievement
The winners of a Pounds 60,000 student prize for designs using Texas Instruments digital signal processing components will be announced on Tuesday. Teams from Italy, Singapore and the United States...
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Midlands focus
(Photograph) - Birmingham and Aston Universities are planning a closer working relationship to capitalise on matching provision and develop expertise such as that of Aston's optometry and vision...
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Funding withdrawn as partnership collapses
A RESEARCH council grant has been withdrawn from a joint project at Cambridge and Bristol universities following the collapse of their partnership. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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Anglia to drop 'poly' and go east
ANGLIA Polytechnic University is to apply for a new name to shake off confusion over its status. Governors, staff and students have "almost unanimously" agreed to scrap the word "polytechnic" from...
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British best in Europe
BRITISH universities score best across Europe in a large-scale comparison of universities in 15 European countries by the German news magazine Der Spiegel. But while they dominated the top ten in all...
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Scots eye wider intake
Glasgow Caledonian University last week hosted two major events aimed at increasing the numbers of students from less affluent backgrounds. The first of a series of seminars on the Committee of Vice-...
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Postcode formula addresses access
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has unveiled a new calculation of higher education partipation which it hopes will help concentrate wider access efforts on areas of greatest need,...
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Expert challenges egalitarian claims
An expert in education statistics has challenged the Garrick Committee's claim that Scotland has had more success than the rest of the United Kingdom in attracting students from the lower...