UCL banks on Suffolk park life
University College London is to open a multimillion pound advanced research and postgraduate centre in information and communications technologies in Suffolk next spring. UCL@Adastral.Park is funded...
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Wanted: more smart asses
Enterprise teaching ranges from "bad to disastrous" in all countries and its "shady image" acts as a break on development, according to a report on entrepreneurship. The findings are from the second...
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Will Halifax also be 'big' for people in 54 states?
Richard Bourne assesses whether the coming Commonwealth education conference will be more than just talk. One of the biggest but most mysterious international conferences on education begins this...
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Time to stop the rot - in rich and in poor countries
"A country whose universities are allowed to decline is opting out of the development process at the start of the 21st century." Richard Bourne quotes an Association of Commonwealth Universities...
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Institutions wither in the quality straitjacket
An obsession with auditing is preventing British universities from competing with the US, argues Frank Furedi. John Kay's warning this week about the vanishing world-class British university is...
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Why I... believe surveys can be misleading
Gathering accurate data is vital as government and other agencies turn increasingly to surveys to gauge public feeling about policy issues. But even the most reputable surveys can never be perfect -...
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Managing to change
Since human nature does not lend itself to the business environment, business should adapt to human nature, says Nigel Nicholson. New Darwinism, or evolutionary psychology (EP), has focused attention...
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Latest UK news
V-c quits over disagreement with governors Northumbria University vice-chancellor Gilbert Smith is standing down next year because of a disagreement with governors over the future direction of the...
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Latest international news
Namibian and South African universities link Officials from the University of Namibia are discussing collaboration with the University of the Wi****ersrand in South Africa. A scholarship programme...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES An investment bank, Beeson Gregory, is providing £20m to help finance a new chemistry building at Oxford University. In return, it gets equity stakes in spin-offs arising from the...
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Agony aunt
I am tired of reports that graduates leave university with poor communication skills. What help is available to improve things? Martin Greenhow , senior tutor, mathematical sciences, Brunel...
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How to... orchestrate cerebral cells
WHAT : Essays test a limited range of skills, and portfolios often fail to draw together disparate pieces of work WHY : Richard Winter believes the 'patchwork text' lets students write in a way that...
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Star turn: Bernard Schumacher
Tony Tysome's taste buds got a real treat when he joined would-be chefs to watch a master at work. Like many people, I fancy myself a TV chef, unveiling home-spun tips and secret ingredients to a...
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Students lap up lessons on the laptop
Glen Postle's students enjoy their courses so much they don't want to graduate. Geoff Maslen reports. Sitting in his Toowoomba office at the University of Southern Queensland, Glen Postle uses a...
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Talking Shop: Why don't we turn the tide of plagiarism to the learners' advantage?
Instead of making cheating a policing issue, it may be time to try a different tack, suggests Ranald Macdonald. Why the fuss about plagiarism? After years of trying to get students to develop...