Web goes boldly into teaching
A project to establisha virtual reading group on learning and teaching in higher education has won a grant from the Staff and Educational Development Association. The project, managed by Paul Curzon...
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Tutors recruited in joint honours
A new centre for joint honours has been created at Leeds University to recruit a pool of part-time personal tutors from teaching departments to help with pastoral activities. The university said the...
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Staff trained in disability needs
A consortium of four Scottish higher education institutions is getting Pounds 150,000 for a staff development scheme to help students with disabilities. Aberdeen, Stirling and the Robert Gordon...
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How to ... Get groups to work
WHAT - Students can often learn more about their subject by working on tasks in small groups. Sally Brown suggests ways of ironing out the difficulties in teamwork. WHY - Employers and professional...
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A microchip off the old block
Computers could easily replace lectures, says Nick Coleman. Academics only need to write imaginative software that lets the student learn. Is the university lecturer about to relinquish his job to a...
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Funding scandal college to shed staff
Halton College will have to shed a third of its staff following investigations into financial irregularities by the Further Education Funding Council. The board of governors confirmed this week that...
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National Audit Office
The National Audit Office has ordered the Welsh Funding Council and the Welsh Office to strengthen their oversight of further education following a collapse at Wales's largest college. An NAO report...
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Institute of Learning gears up
The Institute of Learning and Teaching has appointed Paul Clark, director of learning and teaching at the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, as its first chief executive. Dr Clark was...
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Hands-on science
(Photograph) - Hands-on science: undergraduates at Cambridge University are mucking in for Science Week with a day-long workshop at the Museum of Zoology entitled 'Crash, Bang, Squelch'. Hundreds of...
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Unions face fees ban
The Australian government is trying to ban universities from collecting student service fees. Universities could face a loss of federal funding if they failed to comply. The government has introduced...
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GM circus comes to town
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee had rarely seen anything like it. On view was Arpad Pusztai, the Aberdeen scientist who caused a media circus when he publicly expressed concerns...
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GM foods
In a new paper on GM foods, Sir Robert May, the government's chief scientific adviser, said: "I have confidence in our precautions relating to food safety, some doubts about how completely we...
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CVCP reforms go back to drawing board
Vice-chancellors have called for a rethink on proposals for an overhaul of their representative body. They have told a working group reviewing the membership and structure of the Committee of Vice-...
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Head for IT
Simon Marsden, director of management information at the University of Edinburgh, has been elected chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). www.ucisa.ac.uk.
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Triple link
Peterborough Regional College has installed a Pounds 200,000 network linking three sites on two "virtual LANs" for students and staff. The Nortel Networks Gigabit Ethernet solution, installed by...