Architects fear course renovation
The Royal Institute of British Architects is proposing the biggest shake-up of architecture degree courses in decades. The present five years of training are to be split into undergraduate and...
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Cambridge bids for medics
The University of Cambridge has become the latest to add its name to a growing list of institutions keen to attract a new kind of mature medical student. The university this week confirmed it will be...
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FT education offshoot uses global muscle to expand
The media group Pearson has created a management education business and appointed a new managing director to run it. The business will combine the distance-learning management education programmes...
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The bug that will not go away
One hundred people are to take part in a year-long project run by Lancaster University to determine how the millennium bugwill affect people's lives in the run-up to December 31. A random selection...
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Establishing a level playing field
AUT and CVCP discuss copyright to avoid future disputes About 200 amendments have been filed so far to a European directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, which could...
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The very model of a merger
Loughborough College of Art and Design faced perhaps its greatest creative challenge last year: a merger with its neighbour university. The move, which took three years from conception to completion...
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AUT and CVCP discuss copyright to avoid future disputes
Academics need to decide on copyright before they start research to avoid a rising tide of disputes, the Association of University Teachers has warned. The union is in talks with the Committee of...
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Is Bett about to pay dividends?
Almost a year into its work, the Independent Review of Higher Education Pay and Conditions, led by Sir Michael Bett, has no fixed finish date. Harriet Swain reports on what it has been doing It is...
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Climate clues in sunken forest
An 8,000-year-old submerged forest on the north coast of the Isle of Wight is helping scientists predict the effects of climate change. At the foot of Bouldnor Cliff, also underwater, are root...
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Push to improve minorities' care
Researchers at the Mary Seacole Research Centre of De Montfort University are developing a training module to help healthcare professionals better serve ethnic minority groups. "It is clear from our...
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Titanic romance woos women
Titanic put women and children first in more ways than one, said Peter Kramer, lecturer in film studies at the University of East Anglia. It was a brief return to big-budget Hollywood films aimed at...
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Barred of Avon
Were Dermot Sheils and John Holland sacked by Stratford-upon-Avon College because they are disabled? Staff at the college and both men's trade unions fear so. Mr Sheils's and Mr Holland's employment...
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Leicester wants tribunal cases kept quiet
An attempt to stop press coverage of a sex harassment industrial tribunal case has been lodged by the University of Leicester. Leicester is facing at least five employment tribunal cases in which...
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Don's Diary
Monday The snow clouds have cleared. This morning, I can spot the distant Caucasus mountains to the south. Sergej collects me in the office Lada and we are off across town to Nasledie (Heritage), the...
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In the news
Ten years ago, the Nobel prizewinning biologist David Baltimore was embroiled in a dispute dubbed "A Scientific Watergate" by The New York Times. This week, he attends the American Association for...