Hull staff alarmed by top 20 ambitions
Hull University has set out an ambitious £20 million plan to reposition itself as a top 20 university. Key proposals include: a 20 per cent rise in student intake within five years; doubling research...
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QAA to make mark overseas
Quality chiefs plan to "kitemark" British universities' overseas courses, after a string of quality control and mismanagement scandals. The Quality Assurance Agency has long let it be known that...
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How members of the University contribute to 'modern Oxford'
It's goodbye to Brideshead. Tim Cook is managing director of Isis Innovation, the university's technology transfer arm. Isis works closely with the research services office in the university to...
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Glittering prizes
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000 has been awarded "to scientists and inventors whose work has laid the foundation of modern information tech-nology". Half of the SEK 9 million (£630,000) prize...
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Eyewitness
An official inquiry into the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from the Bohemian city of Brno in the summer of 1945 may break a conspiracy of silence over wholesale postwar ethnic cleansing that continues...
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Slovaks get new college
Slovakia's first non-state university opened last month in Ruzomberok in central Slovakia. Formally termed a Catholic university, it has been established only after years of political wrangling....
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Access limits anger students
More than 200 students in limbo staged a sit-in outside Italy's parliament last week to put pressure on MPs to solve a legislative conflict on university access. In 1969, during nationwide student...
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Euro conclave calls for borderless study
An association representing hundreds of European higher education institutions plans to promote cross-border education using open and distance-learning teaching. Some 350 teachers and researchers...
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Feud puts science project in jeopardy
Soured relations between a Spanish university and its regional government are blocking the development of a E120 million (£72 million) science park in Alicante. Valencia's regional government, the...
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Frozen north out in the cold
Fewer Canadian researchers are joining the multinational teams conducting studies in the country's north, according to a task force report. Canada's northern research is deteriorating, says the...
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Students who kidnapped staff face expulsion
The senate of Nigeria's Delta State University has unanimously resolved to expel the leaders of the student union who took part in the kidnapping of the university's vice-chancellor, Ovie Igun. The...
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V-cs reject 'divisive' overhaul
South African vice-chancellors have rejected government proposals to change radically the size and shape of higher education. They opposed forced mergers and a three-tier system that would in effect...
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Scheme plans big jobs boost with small firms
A pioneering graduate employment scheme in Edinburgh believes it can promote jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises to 10,000 Scottish graduates a year if it goes nationwide. Margaret Allan,...
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Sponsor wooed by 3D study
Tudor cottages and suburban semis will grace the landscape of the next version of a classic computer game thanks to students at the Kent Institute for Art and Design (Kiad). The UK edition of Sim...
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Wap gets the campus call
Alongside the Investors in People and Queen's Award plaques, most campus receptions prominently display a mobile phone ban. But a rehabilitation of the mobile menace is on the cards. Administrators...