Students prefer bar to rally
THE FOCUS of students' lives has moved from the classroom to halls of residence, bars and clubs, according to a survey of students' lives and attitudes from the 1960s to the present. The size of...
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Robodon: machines may become more intelligent than man, says Kevin Warwick
(Photograph) - Robodon: machines may become more intelligent than man, says Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Accompanied by his thinking dwarf robots, Professor Warwick...
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Teaching in decline, says study
EVIDENCE that undergraduate teaching is being damaged by the powerful research culture of British universities is emerging from new studies. Ian McNay, head of the centre for higher education...
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Euro threat to budgets
MORE money could be drained from further education on top of the crippling cuts to next year's budgets after a ruling by the European Court of Justice. It could mean that organisations, including...
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GMC attacks medics training
MORE emphasis must be placed on the education and training of young doctors in their year of transition from provisional to full registration, says a report by the General Medical Council. The New...
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Unions fight Inverness cuts
UNIONS at Inverness College were yesterday lobbying the board of management against cuts which they claim will see one in six staff lose their jobs, three outlying sites axed, and the curriculum...
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British Library calls for archive work
THE UNITED Kingdom's national libraries should join forces to ensure a more efficient system of collecting published works, according to the British Library. The library says it is no longer possible...
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Natfhe action wave
A WAVE of industrial action is spreading through further education as colleges prepare to bite the bullet on funding cuts. Staff at more than a dozen colleges are taking industrial action, according...
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Governors censure ex-head
FORMER Stoke-on-Trent College boss Neil Preston faces accusations of bullying, serious misconduct and wilful neglect of his duties in a damning governors' report. It says that Mr Preston was fired...
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Yeovil set to strike
LECTURERS at Yeovil College have passed a vote of no confidence in principal Richard Atkins and are set to strike over new contracts. Natfhe members are angry at the imposition of the contracts by Mr...
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Trading in a literary sphere
A Bibliographic History of the Book - A Genius for Letters
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an eminent Venetian: "Emperors and kings, dukes and marquises, counts,...
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The grammar test
Select, GET asked, the grammatically correct example from the following group: "I am totally disinterested in fashion. I find it boring." "I cannot agree with you about him being selected for the job...
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Notes from a small island
Three academics explain how and why they will vote I support the Conservative party for the same reasons I do West Bromwich Albion - partisan loyalty, a preference for the underdog, and intense...
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Appointments
Coventry University Eulian Roberts, chief executive of Stirling University Innovation Park Limited, has been appointed director of commercial affairs. University of Wolverhampton The management has...