Analysis: Good teachers or great stage managers?
The overall results of the TQA show that higher education teaching has improved. But, asks Phil Baty, is this genuine or have departments learnt how to pull the wool over the assessors' eyes? Less...
The overall results of the TQA show that higher education teaching has improved. But, asks Phil Baty, is this genuine or have departments learnt how to pull the wool over the assessors' eyes? Less...
Financial Times Fiona Harvey says that scientists are learning how to build tiny machines a few atoms wide; industrial applications may be a decade or more away but progress has been astonishing....
Financial Times The University of Bristol has produced a radio that can run for up to 2,000 hours on a single battery. The Guardian Many of the best degree courses in Britain are to be found at the...
University standards reports to be scrapped Parents and students will no longer be able to compare the quality of universities or degree courses because the inspection system on which the comparisons...
The atrocities of September 11 have split progressives in the US into two hostile camps, says Harvey Kaye The morning after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon I received a call...
Today's main story All students will be forced to pay a graduate tax under government plans to restore grants, in an embarrassing retreat from one of Labour's key education reforms. University...
Financial Times Scientists at North Carolina State University hope to develop better protective clothing by incorporating additives in the fibre rather than as a coating. French government scientists...
Whatever its failings, the racism conference in Durban should at least teach us to listen. Anybody who followed the proceedings of the Durban World Conference on racism was given serious cause to...
The Independent US scientists, politicians and pressure groups were at loggerheads last night after the House of Representatives voted for a complete ban on human cloning - even if it were...
A £50,000 teaching fellowship sounds great, writes Pat Leon, unless it wrecks your RAE status and alienates colleagues Twenty "star" lecturers will join the growing fellowship of national teaching-...
Enrico Fermi - Fermi Remembered
The race is on for the leadership of South Africa's top university following the departure of vice-chancellor Mamphela Ramphele to the World Bank. But few people seem to want the job. The University...
American universities typically generate $5 million (Pounds 3.1 million) a year from developing and delivering programmes for corporate universities, a survey has found. Private-sector institutions...
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