Summit seeks end to IT skills shortage
Europe's information technology skills shortage was the focus of a Brussels e-learning summit of computing and communications companies, European Union politicians and officials last week. Delegates...
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Politics that's high on paranoia
The UK's drugs strategy is ripe for revision, says Howard Parker. Common sense has bedevilled drugs policy for a decade. It is common sense to stop young people taking drugs by providing school-based...
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Stressed teenage mums find a little relief in cyberspace
A Canadian programme called Cybermoms has been providing support for teenage mothers and helping them develop social networks. It also seems to be improving their literacy skills. The programme was...
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Latest UK news
Trainee teachers struggle with maths The number of trainee teachers who fail their compulsory maths test is soaring, it was claimed today. The failure rate at Brighton University has leapt from 3 per...
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Latest international news
China claims academic is spy China has accused a Hong Kong-based academic of spying for Taiwan. Li Shaomin, professor of business studies at Hong Kong's City University, is originally from China but...
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Higher education appointments
University of Surrey Angela Kane has been appointed head of the department of dance studies from September 1. Lectureships J. Clark , former PhD student at Reading University, school of electronics,...
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Higher education awards and prizes
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation In recognition of his past achievements in research, the Foundation has elected chemist John Nixon , professor at the University of Sussex to receive a Research...
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Giant London merger plan
London Guildhall University and the University of North London plan to merge creating a 25,000 student body, one of the largest in the country. The two institutions announced plans this week for...
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Next week
NEWS Election 2001: constituencies and candidates; Two v-cs reposition their universities FEATURES Mark Wallinger talks to Helen Hague about the politics of art and the Venice Biennale BOOKS Patrick...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Labour plans a radical expansion of its United States-style scheme for gifted children, with up to 150,000 of the brightest pupils linked to university-based talent academies. There...
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Elite plots the demise of TQA
Teaching assessments may be phased out and quality measured solely by institution-wide audits. This was expected to be the focus of discussions between vice-chancellors, funding chiefs and the...
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Mayor's close call
A farewell service to mark the closure of the Ripon campus of the University College of Ripon and York St John is to be boycotted by the city's mayor. Councillor Paul Freeman has turned down an...
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Painters reveal early surgery
European surgeons' earliest efforts to repair cleft lips, one of the most common congenital abnormalities, were recorded by some of the Renaissance's greatest artists. A study by scholars from...
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Farren looks at quotas for poor
Sean Farren, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, plans to investigate whether the province needs a quota system to ensure access by disadvantaged groups. Northern Ireland...
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Don's Diary
Week One Stretched out on the beach at the Radisson Plaza, awaiting our survey ship's arrival in Port Louis, Mauritius, we guiltily justify our last glimpse of paradise before our month's...