Leading the link between learning
Glasgow Caledonian University has been a pioneer of workplace learning since 1992. It is committed to this in its new strategic plan, offering postgraduate courses from certificates to masters...
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A two-year BEng sprint
The cream of Motorola's young engineers are taking an intensive degree, schooled by GCU lecturers, while at work. Olga Wojtas reports on the pioneering link-upthat is getting results The Motorola...
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New approach to Old English
Old English is considered old hat in some universities. But the internet is helping to keep it alive. Tony Tysome reports Oxford University caused a stir in English literature departments up and down...
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Nerc sinks centre for coastal research
The troubled Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences is to be disbanded by the Natural Environment Research Council. Despite an Pounds 11 million rescue package nine months ago, a long-term decline in...
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Downgraded Italian lecturers secure Prodi review
Pisa The European Commission is to reconsider the case of more than 1,500 foreign-language lecturers in Italian universities who were downgraded to technical staff in 1995 when trade unions agreed a...
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Academic snub KOs boxers
The International Boxing Academy has accused college chiefs of "academic snobbery" and "a disgraceful betrayal" this week following a fight about the status of the Olympic sport. Students from the...
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Pay row dashes hopes of 'new approach'
Leaders of lecturers at new universities rejected a "derisory" pay offer of 3 per cent this week, despite being offered a better package than their old-university counterparts. A meeting between...
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Rio de Janeiro
Professors and students at Rio de Janeiro's state universities are using lecture rooms to hold concerts and dance sessions to promote cultural activities pending the conclusion of a strike by...
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Petaling Jaya
A growing number of Malaysian students are appealing against expulsion from their universities on non-academic grounds. Offences include "attitude problems" and "indecent dressing". It has been...
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Abuja
Despite anxieties over its potential as a training ground for fundamentalists, the Nigerian federal government has signed an agreement with the Kano state government to build a $300 million (Pounds...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has awarded one of 28 annual Hellman/Hammett grants to Serbian professor Svetlana Slapsak. Professor Slapsak was active in the peace movement and, when the Bosnian war broke out,...
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Rome
The Vatican has approved the Ex corde Ecclesiae, setting down rules for Roman Catholic universities in America. Professors of theology will now require approval from their local bishops before they...
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Sources for research funding
LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk Research Interchange Grants Aim: to support visits with the objective of fostering a research project, or developing a field of research or a highly-specialised...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Wait for my flight to South Korea, where I meet David, a PhD student. I ponder on how Korea will compare to the other Southeast Asian countries I know. As an anthropologist and historian, I...
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On the move
Nick Reilly, chairman and managing director of Vauxhall Motors and vice-president of General Motors, is to be chair of the Adult Learning Inspectorate. Bob Boucher, vice-chancellor of UMIST, is to be...