UCAS a bar to access
I have just returned from the British Council education exhibitions in Hong Kong and Thailand, where much was made of the new branding of British education. While I applaud this initiative, one of...
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More pay, fewer jibes
Academic and related staff have a strong case for their salaries to be increased, as the evidence from the Bett committee indicates. Let us hope that the government will ensure that universities...
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Bright sparks cross the divide
The old versus new university divide makes no difference to the amount of innovative teaching taking place. Harold Silver and Andrew Hannan have found that it is history that counts History appears...
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Glass class
(Photograph) - Kirsteen Aubrey displays her work for Public Arts Laboratory, an interactive exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester until February 28. Visitors enter the world...
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Stressed, bored, sober and selfish
Stress continues to rise among American students, especially females, says a national survey. Researchers blame a faster lifestyle, high expectations and the need to work part-time to pay tuition...
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Turks cite Islamic threat and sack 53
Turkish universities have sacked 53 academics in the largest purge of staff by the country's ruling higher education authority in recent years. The expulsions were carried out by the authority's...
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Australian bosses find graduate applicants deficient
More than three in every four graduates from Australia's universities and technical colleges are unsuitable for the jobs they apply for, according to a national survey of employers. New graduates...
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Students stranded in illegal limbo
Many Palestinian students remain cut off from their homes three months after a "safe passage" allowing them to travel between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was opened by the Israeli authorities. "...
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Study finds more to bug than technology
Organisations that rose to the challenge presented by the millennium bug could use similar strategies to ensure other wide-ranging changes happen more smoothly, according to research published by...
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Global audience for Jewish studies
Israel's Bar-Ilan University claims to be the only world-class university offering online credit courses in Jewish studies. The Virtual Jewish University was launched internationally last autumn,...
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Rapid change leaves Europe lagging behind
A wake-up call to European decision-makers on the need for rapid transformation in "knowledge acquisition" was delivered at a conference in Brussels last week. The Futures Project conference,...
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Task force to review qualifications
Scotland's Knowledge Economy Task Force, set up by enterprise and lifelong learning minister Henry McLeish, is set to debate whether higher education should include inbuilt professional accreditation...
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Patently obvious
A free patent search service for academic and industrial researchers is being made available on the internet by the European Patent Organisation, writes Kam Patel. Kathrina Maes of the Vienna-based...
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Commercial innovation
The University of Manchester this week launched a business that will help researchers commercialise technology and form their own spin-off companies. "The launch of Manchester Innovation Ltd shows we...
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Managers' masterclass
Recent research shows that about 80 per cent of IT projects fail to deliver stated business benefits because the "human dimension" has not been managed effectively. To counter this, the British...