Eight tips from Derbyshire
A regional credit framework and a credit accumulation and transfer system should do the following: * Recognise small steps of learning from basic skills to postgraduate through the award of credits,...
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Star turn
A lecture on Monteverdi's Orfeo at York University leaves Alison Utley humming and university students buzzing Jo Wainwright's professional day begins at 8.15am today with the girls' choir at York...
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An Astaire and Kelly model of argument
Alan Dignam gives lecturers and students a few tips on how to see both sides' point of view when it comes to assessing a good essay As a university lecturer I am struck by the similar difficulties my...
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Black Country centre opens
The University of Wolverhampton has opened a Pounds 4.5 million learning centre in the city to help give up to 10,000 students access to the internet, email and CD-Roms, along with the usual books,...
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Lecturer sets up ME helpline
A former further education lecturer who has chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) has started up a group for teachers. James Talbot, who lost his job on the grounds of ill health last month, has started up...
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Jazz musician first for Scotland
Napier University is jazzing up its teaching, offering Scotland's first postgraduate course in jazz from September. The new master of music in jazz will bring together up to 20 music graduates from...
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Older staff win free university places
Strathclyde University's continuing education centre has offered university staff 150 free places on its learning in later life and extension programmes. Staff winning places include Alan Chambers, a...
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The lecturers worth their salt
Di Burton argues that traditional staff should not regard the 'practitioner' academic as a second-class citizen Today's universities are fighting to win students by showing their relevance in the...
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Fees hike would not deter undergraduates
Undergraduate fees are on course for a radical shake-up, according to new research that suggests that fees could be doubled without fear of dampening student demand. According to the findings of...
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Baroness Perry calls for universities to have the right to set their own fees
Baroness Perry, former vice-chancellor of South Bank University and now president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, has called for universities to have the right to set their own fees, writes...
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Greens plan college
The Green Party has proposed the establishment of a University of Blackpool to siphon off students from nearby Manchester and help smooth out the seasonal nature of the seaside town's economy. The...
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EU launches FP5 research funding
The European Union officially launched its Pounds 10.4 billion Fifth Framework Programme for research this week at a conference in Essen, Germany. More than 4,000 delegates from universities and...
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A career in several volumes
A book a year? No sweat. Harriet Swain talks to Jeremy Black, the prolific historian who prefers Freddie Mercury to Queen Victoria. This autumn, Jeremy Black, professor of history at the University...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
There were two views of human nature when I was a student. One, promulgated by the church, was that humans are fundamentally bad, even if redeemable. The other derived its weight from the profoundly...
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A click in the right direction
Marry textbooks and computers and you may have a learning match made in heaven, says Harry Gensler Do textbooks have a future? In 20 years from now will students use computerised materials instead of...