Central force
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has opened a Pounds 1.8 million centre for small business development in the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow. The...
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Power play
An education start-up company that sued Harvard University to protect its right to use the name notHarvard.com is changing its name to Powered.com. NotHarvard.com filed a lawsuit against Harvard in...
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Arabic orbit
Surrey University spin-off SSTL has won an Pounds 8 million contract from the Centre National des Techniques Spatiales of Algeria for an advanced Earth observation microsatellite. A long-term...
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Accents online
Russian training organisations are turning to the internet to promote English language courses. One training company is offering special language certificates to the first 1,000 students to sign up...
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E-boot camp
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, in the US, is partnering University Access, an online learning company, to develop an online version of the business school's business bridge...
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Caribbean connection
Coventry University has given 62 computers to the Caribbean island group of St Vincent and the Grenadines. The donation follows a meeting between Gill Holmes, marketing manager at the university, and...
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Room and IT course offered to homeless
The government has launched a Pounds 6.5 million scheme to introduce 49 high-tech learning environments in specialist centres across the United Kingdom that provide accommodation for the homeless....
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Changing environment demands collaboration
Britain's university system is set for the sort of change already accelerating in further education, as the near-merger between Bradford and Leeds Metropolitan makes clear (page 64). Such...
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Hope remains, but the chance of more is receding
"My hope," said the minister for higher education in Brighton this week, "is that the money will be forthcoming." The money in question is the as yet undisclosed spending planned for higher education...
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We have a dream but we we won't be paying for it
US presidential candidates promise to reduce college costs, but show me the money, says Stanley Aronowitz The 2000 US presidential elections mark a turning point in national political discussion...
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Puttnam's leap
"There is no question that the sort of person going into teaching is getting better and better," says Lord Puttnam ("Liberating staff from 'the pits'", THES, September 22). Notwithstanding the poor...
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How stakeholders see the QAA
I was not surprised to read the response of the Council of Validating Universities to the Quality Assurance Agency's position paper on a national qualifications framework for England, Wales and...
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How stakeholders see the QAA
Your article, "UEL gets rapped over staff 'neglect'", (News, THES, September 15) contained misleading references to the outcome of the University of East London's continuation audit. The Quality...
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Partners wanted
Middle-class students were reportedly recruited to fill empty places in summer schools because too few students from under-represented groups "met the criteria" ("Poor fail to fill access places",...
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Authors identified
Alan Story makes the fair point that the Copyright Licensing Agency system is unable to identify individual journal articles and thus, if appropriate, to route payments to the authors of those...