British higher education is playing the quality card in its efforts to compete with Australia and the United States for a share of the Southeast Asian market. Close links between government...
Safety in risk business If plant genetics has proved an ethical minefield lately, human genetics is even more fraught. But it will be less of a worry now for Sir Colin Campbell, vice-chancellor of...
The pre-packaged course may be tempting, but beware, when Simon Lilley tried one out neither he nor his students were impressed by the flavour The so-called McDonaldisation of higher education*...
WHAT. Universities need to get closer to further education colleges to remove traditional barriers to learning. Christopher Ball explains how credit networks help WHY If we are serious about lifelong...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...