Oz shows how to cope with students
A team of British and Dutch educationists today finished a week's whistle-stop inspection tour of 14 Australian universities aimed at gleaning information on how to use computers more flexibly to...
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Cutting Edge: The key to artificial vision is staring us in the face
If you want to know how a locust avoids high-speed collisions, take it to a movie. Roger Santer reports. Animals' visual systems are incredibly good at extracting useful information from a very...
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LSC's team confronts rising fraud
The Learning and Skills Council is clamping down on fraud that could cost the taxpayer millions of pounds as cases emerge at the rate of four a month. Special investigators are probing a growing...
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Hodge's row with FE rolls on
The spat between ministers and college heads over further education standards rolled on this week, with both sides trading blows. In a letter to college principals and the Association of Colleges,...
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Shefc formula raises grants
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has made its allocations more selective in the wake of the research assessment exercise, but not as selective as many institutions feared. It pledged to...
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Getting research into business
Helping vice-chancellors and policy-makers to get the most out of the creative capital in universities is the aim of a guide launched this week. Managing Intellectual Property is a joint venture...
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Analysis: Blank cheque or ticket to nowhere?
The government and many universities see patenting as a way to generate much-needed money. But Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis find the reality often falls short of the rhetoric. In 1998, the...
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Whistleblowers: Doctor's 'discrimination' case is taken further
The Privy Council will be asked to investigate an Asian student's failed ten-year struggle to qualify as a doctor at Sheffield University. Sushant Varma had to resit one exam four times because of...
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Canada 'unforgiving' to debtors
A Canadian scheme to help university graduates saddled with student-loan debts has benefited less than 4 per cent of the people it sought to assist. Debt Reduction in Repayment is debt-forgiveness in...
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RMIT set to build a £22 million campus in Vietnam
Melbourne's RMIT University will soon start construction of a $31.5 million (£22 million) campus on 140 acres in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City. RMIT, which claims to be the first foreign educational...
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In brief
Bologna Assassins gunned down Marco Biagi, 52, a professor of economics at the University of Modena, outside his home on Tuesday. Professor Biagi was an advisor to the labour ministry, which has been...
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Israel's curfews hit classes
Lecturers and students at West Bank universities are assessing the damage caused during the week-long incursion by the Israeli Defence Forces. Ghassan Khatib, director of the Jerusalem Media and...
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Botswana reopens following boycott
The University of Botswana has reopened after a three-week closure but all returning students have had to sign a document binding them to guidelines and procedures "for the resolution of student...
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Makerere makes bid to improve elocution
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Split infinitives, uncrossed ts and garbled...
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Czech course helps medics to work worldwide
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Ottomar Kittnar delves into ancient European...