Aussies crushed by overwork
Australian academics are working long hours, facing large classes and suffering great stress, says a new report. On average, they work almost 50 hours a week and 40 per cent spend more than 50 hours...
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US braced for tidal wave of students
University enrolment in the United States will swell by a fifth by 2015, thanks to the rise in births, increased immigration and the growing economic value of a higher degree, according to a new...
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One pair of Irish eyes not smiling
A leading endocrinologist may be refused a post at a university in Ireland because his Irish is not considered good enough. Timothy O'Brien, an associate professor at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota,...
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Robots soccer stars of future
Germany's national football team proved itself all too human when it crashed out of Euro 2000 early, but the country's soccer-playing robots might be more reliable. German universities will field up...
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Belarusian fightback for right to national identity
Belarusian President Alaksandr Lukashenka is under pressure to establish a Belarusian National University and introduce Belarusian-taught courses at other higher education institutions. The...
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Auditors attack EU agency
A humiliating attack on the management of the European Union's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been published by the EU Court of Auditors, Brussels' financial watchdog. The report criticises long-...
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Coventry praised for new technology ethos
The Quality Assurance Agency has given Coventry University star marks for its innovative use of new technology in teaching and learning, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The QAA report on the university's...
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Glasgow's research nets Pounds 1,000 a minute
Glasgow University has won a record Pounds 100 million in new research grants and contracts this year, a month before the end of the financial year. This compares with Pounds 69 million last year,...
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Inflated value
(Photograph) - Student Darren Walker emerges from Abode, the inflatable shelter for the homeless he spent seven months designing and producing as his final-year project on the computer-aided design...
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Bafta heralds UK as online Hollywood
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has added a new category in its annual awards, aiming to create a "beacon of excellence" for online learning. Bafta believes the UK can become the...
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Queen's students dial up for results
Gone are the days when students at Queen's University, Belfast, had to trek to the "wailing wall" at the back of the Lanyon Building to check if their exam results had been published. In a pioneering...
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Alumnus award on video link between Strathclyde University and Silicon Valley
(Photograph) - A video link between Strathclyde University and Silicon Valley in the US enabled principal Sir John Arbuthnott to honour Arthur van Hoff as alumnus of the year. Mr van Hoff, who...
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Scottish colleges ask for more as fund is revamped
Scotland is revamping its innovative Pounds 11 million "proof of concept" fund, which has produced funding for only nine out of 83 research projects in the first round. University leaders say this...
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FEs offer skills for free
CollegeNet, a consortium of seven colleges of further education, has launched a free scheme to help people in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as individuals, to learn new online...
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Fleshed out authors
More than 200 internet writers converged on Nottingham Trent University this week for one of the biggest "flesh" meetings of cyberauthors in the country. The three-day event attracted more than 40...