Overseas push kicks off on net
A new image for Britain's higher education in highly competitive overseas markets was launched this week as part of the strategy to meet the government's aim of 75,000 extra overseas students in...
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DTI task force focuses on future learning
A Department of Trade and Industry task force aims to find out how new technology and new organisations will alter teaching and learning by 2020. The group has been set up by the information,...
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Lord Sainsbury at conference
University links with industry and improved vocational skills are the two keys to improved economic performance, science minister Lord Sainsbury told a conference this week, writes Alan Thomson. Lord...
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Free skills course
Small businesses in Leeds and Bradford will soon be able to send employees to brush up their skills on a free course at Leeds Metropolitan University, funded by the European Social Fund. Businesses...
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Easing creative tension
Writers in interactive media working in film are often undervalued, according to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Bafta will examine tensions between creative professionals in the new...
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Stirling achievement
Stirling University has won a European Union competition to be the only United Kingdom partner in an Pounds 845,000 project to help promote a learning culture among small and medium-sized businesses...
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Millennium move
Malmo University, Sweden's newest venture in higher education, has chosen a web-based library automation system, Millennium, to replace its present system. The system uses Java-based client software...
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A brand new face for the global marketplace
Some trends that will shape the 21st-century university are already visible and it is on these that the Department of Trade and Industry Foresight task force on learning in 2020 (page 17) will base...
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A fair, accessible system that pays its own way
The government's reforms of higher education funding aim to widen opportunities and generate further resources, argues David Blunkett As the last century progressed, the Left learned to distinguish...
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Readers reactions
Last week in The THES... Nick Coleman criticised the handling of last year's campaign of industrial action. * I too feel angry at being let down by the executive of the Association of University...
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A wake-up call for all
Form-filling, auditing ... academics are swamped by bureaucracy. Frank Furedi calls a halt. Back from a great Christmas holiday. Ready for action. Imagine how my heart sinks when confronted with a...
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More than a supporting role
After years of funding cuts and the introduction of fees, this week brought the first good news for students in a long time. At last, the talk is no longer of whether students need more money, but of...
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Cutting edge
'The programme is too short to generate new mutations. Will the result be a genuine quagga or merely a fraudulent lookalike?' The quagga, extinct since 1883, may soon be roaming the plains of South...
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Oxbridge brains reunion at MSR
Tony Durham meets the men directing Microsoft's innovative research programme in Cambridge The retired head of the Cambridge University computer laboratory holds forth as he paces the room, while the...
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Solving the mystery of the thinning egg shells and other conservation whodunnits
As extinction rates explode, Cambridge University is seeking to set up a professorship of conservation of nature. Pauline Hunt reports From Anglo-Saxon times to the Middle Ages, villagers near a...