The 2006-07 awards are marked by impressive efforts to reduce waste and recycle more, underpinned by cash constraints and the need to cut energy use. Peter James explains This year’s Green Gown...
Hotel-style digs with price tags to match offer students comfort and universities income, so why isn’t everyone keen on such schemes? wonders Alison Utley Dishwashers, leather sofas, broadband, flat-...
People expect a campus to have modern amenities and be sustainable. The estate manager must balance such demands, says Peter Kerr A university is often recognised by its estate, and many use it as...
…but does good design have to break the bank? wonders UCE estates director Graham Rhodes, as he battles with budgets, builders and casts an eye over a blueprint or two FEBRUARY 12, 2007 9am–11am It’s...
Universities keen to cut their carbon footprint can join a consortium that will help them to minimise their energy costs. Andrew Fields explains The Government’s 2006 climate change programme put the...
Learning & skills in HE Published: June 01 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track Work-based learning Published: May 11 2007 "One of the most important ways...
Microsoft supplement Published: June 22 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track  ...
"Leeds Metropolitan University plans to impose a set of 'attitudes and behaviours' that includes the expectation that academic staff will 'go the extra mile', show 'courtesy and respect' and have a '...
First, the obligatory declaration: both my parents left school before their 14th birthdays, one grandfather drove trucks and the other was a shot-firer on the South Yorkshire coal field. Actually,...
It is a mark of how committed academics are to their students and to teaching that there has been no outcry nationally over the levels of students' preparedness for university study. Lecturers do not...
Plato, apparently, had little time for business and businessmen, believing that only the worst types of people bothered with such stuff. But then he was in the habit of denying the reality of the...
Matthias Kuntzel asks: "Is there no longer room for debate?" at Leeds University (Opinion, March 23). There certainly is. We are committed to promoting and encouraging debate, inquiry and protest. We...
When academics fail to argue for their freedom, how do they expect students to treat university as anything more than the first step on the career ladder? Matthias Kuntzel's attempted lecture was...
The issues confronting lecturers and researchers are more complex than you allow ("Hunt faces rough ride from Left on NEC", March 23). The commercialisation and commodification of higher learning and...
As staff at Sussex University's Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Brighton University's Centre for Research in Innovation Management Centre, we are greatly concerned at the poorly...