IBM Bangor centre
The University of Wales at Bangor has opened a IBM Centre of Excellence for Computational Chemistry. The centre is designed to boost collaboration between the university and industry, providing...
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Enrolments going right up to the wire
Furious competition for students means universities and colleges are cautious about assessing enrolment success this year until the new term begins, writes Harriet Swain. Many will be working right...
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Clampdown on foreigners
China is tightening controls on the hiring of foreign teaching staff by universities, who use them as an excuse to bump up tuition charges. Between 1991 and 1995, some 600 institutions, mostly...
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V-cs retreat on budget
ߣߣÊÓƵn higher education unions have accused vice chancellors of using the federal government's budget cuts and the need to pay a wage rise as a pretext to impose large-scale redundancies. They...
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Teaching the art of learning
S. Taylor wrote that the central purpose of a first degree is "to facilitate and encourage the transformation of a person from being reliant on being 'taught' to being capable of 'teaching' oneself...
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Shephard's scars
In the last of our series about university memories, Gillian Shephard tells Simon Midgley about viva panic at Oxford. Now that was a point of extreme difficulty," Gillian Shephard says, wincing at...
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London for top-up fees
London University is poised to signal its support for the introduction of top-up fees to Sir Ron Dearing's higher education inquiry. Heads of London colleges are being asked to back a federal...
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Jet, set, go
The nation's media have been doorstepping Edinburgh University's International Social Sciences Institute on discovering that as soon as deputy director Ged Martin jetted back from New Zealand,...
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Rush to expand led Thames Valley to neglect 'detail'
Quality watchdogs have criticised Thames Valley University's handling of open learning courses overseas. Some programmes run by the university in collaboration with overseas partners suffered from a...
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Israel lures recruiters
United Kingdom universities have turned their attention to Israel as a potential recruiting ground for overseas students. While Israeli universities' academic standards are equal to those in Europe...
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Right issue for FE
The appointment of Roger Ward to run the newly-formed Association of Colleges is likely to be good news for higher education. It has been quite clear recently that Government, opposition and the...
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Teachers ignored by academic recruiters
The response in last week's letters to the charge of low standards of teaching in United Kingdom universities misses the point that those in charge of recruitment discriminate against candidates who...
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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Lancaster to lose jobs
More jobs are to go at Lancaster University. Administrators have asked accountants Coopers & Lybrand to help draw up a three-and-a-half year recovery plan in the face of Pounds 5.8 million...
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Multiply and go grey
More pearls of wisdom from those streetwise pragmatists who publish the Iowa State University parents' handbook. Having warned parents that anything disconcerting will be blamed on "my room mate" and...