Dutch universities are preparing to face more cuts from the new government. Heads of many universities fear for their future under education minister Loek Hermans, who is expected to carry out a...
Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli published by AAAI Press/MIT Pres, 320pp, Pounds 29.50, ISBN 0 262 69206 6 The...
Steve Grand got only two A levels but enjoyed crystallising DNA and "running amok with radioactivity" in the school science labs. The self-taught biologist decided to create a real ecosystem within a...
An online mentoring scheme in the United States could help reduce the number of women students who drop out of engineering and science courses. MentorNet aims to link 5,000 female students with...
An initiative to develop high-quality education and skills, improve business competitiveness and enhance the quality of life for local people in the North-east by exploiting information age...
The University of Edinburgh is running the first UK-based Cisco Networking Academy Programme, a joint venture between Internet hardware maker Cisco Systems and the education sector. The university's...
A project to establish a "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...
Should students be given grades or just marked as pass or fail? A researcher at Brighton University has tested this question on two groups of students and found that withholding grades appears to...
The Alladin project - autonomous language learning in art and design using interactive networks - has won Pounds 0,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Department of...
Coventry University's educational development unit is working on ways to give ethnic minority women more opportunities to study. The idea is to develop IT skills and encourage women with...
Leeds University has set up a centre for joint honours degrees and is recruiting part-time personal tutors from teaching departments to help with pastoral care. The university said the aim of the...
Oxford University is to send promotional videos to about 4,000 secondary schools, further education and sixth-form colleges in a drive to recruit more state-sector pupils. The ten-minute video...
Alison Utley discovers how a lecturing job in the United States relaxed the style of an international communications expert "There's a reading list with websites but it's out of date," Phil Taylor...
Guilty of over-mothering your students or inclined more towards healthy neglect? Can supervisors ever hope to get it right, asks Sally Brown Essays have their place, but give students a dissertation...
Medical charity the Wellcome Trust and research councils this week invited universities to bid for equipment, buildings and refurbishment from a Pounds 600 million joint government-trust fund. The...