Licensed: to lecture
University teachers could need a licence similar to that of medical doctors in order to practise if discussions at the first meeting of the Institute for Learning and Teaching last week come to...
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Minister slams degree snobbery
Irish education minister Miche l Martin has warned the country's institutes of technology that he will not follow the British example by upgrading them to universities. In a speech criticising "...
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Pack drill for quality army
The Quality Assurance Agency is preparing to draw up performance tests for an army of licensed external examiners who will police standards in higher education. It has recruited Gilbert Jessup,...
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Systems of external examining could put too much pressure on examiners
Systems of external examining of the kind recommended by the Dearing commission of inquiry into higher education could put too much pressure on examiners, writes Harriet Swain. A survey of external...
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Moving hands
(Photograph) - Time is not hanging heavy on the hands of David White, who is working his apprenticeship in clock restoration in a shop in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, as part of a training scheme...
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Chairs
King's College, London Sarah Cowley, former senior lecturer, chair of nursing practice and evaluation; David Ganz, University of North Carolina, chair of palaeography; Ian Norman, former senior...
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Chocolate logs a success
Julia Hinde reports from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia EATING chocolate could one day be "green" as well as delicious. Much of the world's cocoa, from which...
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Eureka myth destroyed
SCIENTIFIC breakthroughs are rarely the result of flashes of insight or strokes of good luck despite what scientists may think. "Eureka-style" genius is the exception, collaboration and painstaking...
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UK faces Gulf crash
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia British universities and colleges are bracing for a new overseas recruitment crisis - in the Gulf. As vice-...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Personal administration has piled up in six months of trying to cope with two jobs. I am a senior lecturer in rail systems engineering at Sheffield University but have been seconded to the...
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When Florentines forgot their art
In 1460, when Leonardo da Vinci was eight, an important debate took place in Florence that may account for this great didactic's lapses in discipline. The question was whether Florence should move...
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US schools feel the pinch
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Jae Lee is studying international relations at Boston University. But the 20-year-old South Korean student...
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Centenary for Beijing
Beijing University is to celebrate its 100th anniversary in grand style in May. University president Chen Jia'er said party and state leaders will join more than 10,000 alumni from home and abroad at...
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Government plans Pounds 15m fund
For all those scientists who need to win the National Lottery before they can buy the necessary time or equipment to develop their good idea into a money-making success, the odds of being a winner...
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Grants
University of Wales, Bangor (continued) Research grants Professor R. Hughes, Pounds 129,883 from Natural Environment Research Council (experiments using Abryozoan model system); Dr S. Braunstein,...