Colleges told shape of things to come
The shape of further education in the next century was outlined in a national implementation plan released by the Further Education Funding Council this week. Networking Lifelong Learning: Making It...
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Software companies move in on HE market
Business software vendors such as Oracle and SAP are showing an increasingly serious interest in the higher education market. Besides financial and human resources packages, they are now offering...
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Croft's original
(Photograph) - Croft's original: Staffordshire University has teamed up with games industry professionals to develop a degree course that will produce the next century's creators of interactive games...
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Research fillip
Researchers and students in UK universities now have access to one of the most powerful research tools on the internet. The Web of Science, produced by the Institute for Scientific Information, is...
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Surf's up in Cornwall
Cornwall College is the first further education college in the UK to become a free internet service provider. Its initial service, Cornwall-County Online, is aimed primarily at local businesses, to...
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Brum gets skills boost
Matthew Boulton College has won Pounds 648,000 as part of a pioneering government education project to establish centres of IT and high technology excellence countrywide. The project aims to boost IT...
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Lifelong learning in site
Online academic services provider Ingenta is launching a lifelong learning portal, the Action Learning Institute (ALI), with the International Management Centres Association. It will offer access to...
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Chile wins prize for art
A website designed by students and academics at the University of Chile has been awarded a Unesco prize of $5,000 for the public access it gives to art. Devoted to the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro,...
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New Year opening
The proposed University Mara (Unimara) in Malaysia is to take its first batch of 40 students in January 2000. Ruhanie Ahmad, Mara's chairman, said the main campus will be in Kuala Lumpur, while...
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Positive changes for post-16 sector
In its third parliamentary session, new Labour has broadened its educational focus from schools to post-16 education. The changes planned will be sweeping. The Further Education Funding Council for...
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Professing integrity
A chair is a site of academic auth-ority, not a reward for committee work, says David Robertson Woeful events at my university recently ended with the public humiliation of a long-serving colleague....
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...John Kingman argued that the UK science base will suffer irreparable damage if academic pay and conditions do not improve Peter Cotgreave Director of pressure group Save...
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Blow for the data-poor
We report this week that the planned Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has put on hold a slew of university research projects proposed to the existing Libraries and Information Commission (page...
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Wanted: an independent upper house with teeth
Meg Russell looks at how the commission charged with reforming the House of Lords can serve the needs of higher education As parliamentarians gathered for the Queen's Speech this week, they were a...
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Why I...want an immediate end to the deregulation of gambling
According to a report by the University of Salford, people in the United Kingdom spend a staggering Pounds 110 million every day on gambling. It is fascinating, but also worrying, that once let off...