Wandering with intent
The popular perception of the homeless as aimless wanderers or vagrants is unfounded, says research from Sussex University. Jon May, lecturer in geography at the university's school of cultural and...
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Balloon laser deployed to detect global warming
A balloon-borne laser is about to make a 30-day flight in the battle against global warming. The infrared spectrometer, jointly developed by Cambridge and Strathclyde universities and the National...
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Riddle of the peripatetic fiftysomething
Luke Desforges, a lecturer in the institute of geography and earth sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, has been trying to understand what possesses people in their fifties to venture...
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Your day of judgement
Higher education is soon to get its first official league tables. Alison Goddard looks at what performance indicators are under consideration. The first official league tables for universities are...
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Scots link up in learning hub
Glasgow and Paisley universities have established a link to create a "hub of learning" in Dumfries using Pounds 1.8 million from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's strategic change grant...
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Napier University and Dundee College
Napier University and Dundee College have signed an agreement allowing students taking higher national certificate and diploma courses to progress smoothly to degree programmes. Napier's principal,...
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Teacher training to stay under ofsted
Teacher training in universities must continue to come under schools' inspectorate Ofsted, its chief Chris Woodhead said this week at the launch of his annual report. Mr Woodhead said that there were...
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Footballing heroes
(Photograph) - Footballing heroes: Colin Yates, a senior technician in visual arts at the University of Coventry, with a portrait from his series on the lives of black footballers. 'Many of us think...
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Cult-watch centre faces closure
A unique centre for the study of religious cults based at the London School of Economics may be forced to close due to a lack of money, writes Alan Thomson. The Information Network Focus on Religious...
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Lifelong paper is lacking in coherence, AUTS says
The Scottish Office has failed to produce a coherent plan in its green paper on lifelong learning, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. In its response to Opportunity Scotland,...
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Lecturer fights 'corruption'
Barcelona Spanish university appointments procedures that seem to favour internal candidates over better qualified lecturers returning from posts overseas are being challenged in the courts. Antonio...
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Peace moves
(Photograph) - Ethnic Albanian students at the University of Pristina ended a day's hunger strike after the Yugoslav government and Kosovar leaders agreed to this week's peace talks outside Paris...
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Agony Aunt
I would like to use the web for teaching purposes but don't know how to sort out the good material from the dross Joyce Martin, Head of CTI Support Service, Oxford 01865 33 ctiss@oucs.ox.ac.uk A Pick...
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Scotland's higher education institutions
Scotland's higher education institutions must not lose out if teaching funds for the Open University in Scotland are transferred north of the border, the AUTS has warned. The government is consulting...
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Blunkett's axe hovers over TTA
Speculation that the government is prepared to abolish the Teacher Training Agency is mounting after last week's announcement of a review of the "future need" for the agency's functions. The...