Drop in on Hackney
Residents of the London borough of Hackney can now refashion their local environment online. The borough's sites have been captured on an interactive website - a collaboration between the Hackney...
Search
-
-
New Network head
Cliff Allan, head of the teaching and learning group (policy division) at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been appointed programme director of the new Learning and Teaching...
-
RNIB launches website
A website providing a range of information for blind and partially sighted students has been launched by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The site features specialist technology with large...
-
Bob a job
Graduates hunting for jobs could earn a Pounds 250 bonus if they register at a new recruitment website and subsequently land a job. A powerful search engine at Bob (best of the best) enables...
-
COOL business
Sheffield Hallam University has received Pounds 1.4 million worth of software licences for specialised development of e-business solutions. The licences from Sterling Software's application...
-
Cell science
The University of Naples and Telecom Italia have launched a masters in cellular telephony. The course is for economics, law and engineering graduates and aims to probe the legal, economic and...
-
Making the case for more cash from Mr Brown
University and college leaders are preparing their case for more investment in higher education in chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review, SR2000, which will cover 2002-05. The chancellor wants...
-
A foreign country with hostile border controls
Homeless people face formidable financial and administrative barriers to gain access to higher education, says Carolyn Hayman Think of homeless young people and the image that comes to mind is of...
-
Why I want more inner-city youngsters to go to our top universities
I have been very impressed by the experience of Peter Lampl's Sutton Trust. Over the past two years, it has worked with hundreds of inner-city youngsters to widen their horizons by bringing them on...
-
Readers' reactions
Previously in The THES...John Kingman said academic pay and conditions must improve to preserve the UK science base My experience is that there is a perceptible decrease in the quality of both PhD...
-
A foot in both camps
Art, music, drama and business lecturers should have short contracts and work outside the academy, says Christopher Frayling A couple of weeks ago, I was phoned about a league table, compiled by...
-
Doing quite well by all accounts
Next week, statistics will find some universities failing disadvantaged youngsters. But Diana Warwick argues that existing measures show that HE is performing well The public scrutiny of universities...
-
Universities lose out as FE scoops cash
Further education colleges have won the lion's share of post-16 cash in a funding battle that leaves universities with cuts for the tenth consecutive year. University bosses say that the year-on-year...
-
College managers under scrutiny
* The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has appointed consultants KPMG to review management at 12 colleges in a pilot project. The review, overseen by a SFEFC steering group chaired by...
-
Baroness Blackstone
* Baroness Blackstone is at loggerheads with Liberal Democrat education spokesmen over research for the education department that showed that mature students would be deterred by the introduction of...