Agony aunt
Q Many of my students are from abroad and I want them to go home with a positive learning experience. What sort of guidance is available? A Lee Dunn, Lecturer (on leave), School of Social Workplace...
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How to ... Spread the word on best practice
WHAT A new, round-the-clock information network aims to get best teaching practice to all who need it, writes Cliff Allan WHY Too often, research is not disseminated and remains within the circle of...
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It's an IT field day, but students lose
A 'virtual' strategy designed to help immobile students experience fieldwork could lock the whole class in the lab, writes Lawrie Phipps With a plethora of "virtual" fieldwork...
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Star Turn: Angelo Cecchini
Students fall in love in his lectures on literature as theology. Is this God moving in mysterious ways, Domenico Pacitti asks Students signing up for Angelo Cecchini's American literature courses at...
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Training by carrot, not by baton
Police training is not the didactic regime that some might believe. In fact, it follows the same humane and facilitating principles as most education. Pat Leon reports from the Harrogate police...
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'Militants' rally to save jobs
A "new militancy" has taken root in higher education as up to 1,000 academic jobs face the axe in new universities. Support staff are to join academics' industrial action and there...
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Serbia ousts old guard
Serbia's isolated universities this week began to claw back control from the allies of ousted Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in the expectation that they will soon rejoin the European academic...
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Donor offspring suffer when truth comes out
Adults conceived by donor insemination often suffer a collapse of trust in their family and struggle to deal with their new identity if they discover the truth about their origins, a study has found...
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Learndirect service reels as colleges refuse to sign contracts
The University for Industry has taken emergency action to rescue its learndirect service, after colleges refused to sign contracts, writes Tony Tysome. It has moved swiftly to defuse the boycott over...
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Rapid profits plan for e-uni
The e-university could make an operating profit within three years of its 2002 launch but private investment is vital, funding chiefs acknowledged this week. Start-up costs have been revised...
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Elite told to take more minorities
The older and most prestigious universities must make a particular effort to recruit students from Asian and black communities. This is the recommendation of the report of the Commission on the...
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Doctor in the house
(Photograph) - Doctor in the house: John Tooke, head of Exeter University's postgraduate medicine and health sciences, has been appointed first dean of the new Peninsula Medical School, which begins...
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MRC code puts privacy first
The Medical Research Council has issued guidelines on the ethical handling of personal information in a bid to bolster public trust. The move is designed to help protect patient privacy,...
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Brain drain
(Photograph) - The Fulbright Commission's College Day at Chelsea Old Town Hall attracted record numbers of visitors anxious to learn about studying in the United States Photograph: Joel Chant.
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Spending delay is 'ominous' say v-cs
Vice-chancellors voiced fresh concerns over future university funding this week as it emerged that the government may delay announcing money for the third year of its spending review. Some members of...