Employers fly own kites
EMPLOYERS are moving to bypass the Quality Assurance Agency's plans to benchmark higher education courses with their own set of industry "kitemarks" and league tables. As the QAA moves to establish a...
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MPs warn against fraud
THE credibility of vocational education, including training under the government's New Deal for the unemployed, could be undermined by fraud and malpractice, a report from the Committee of Public...
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Visions behind ventures
AT THE heart of every successful joint venture between university and industry is a charismatic figure with vision, initiative and drive, a government-backed study has found. The findings, published...
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Making science as sexy as The Street
Can science programmes ever be as popular as Coronation Street? Tim Matschak investigates Science programming rarely achieves the prominence of the recent BBC series The Human Body with an average of...
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Media courses scrapped in shake-up at BFI
The British Film Institute is pulling out of its involvement in providing media degree courses as part of a big shake-up of its education programme. The institute currently delivers an MA in film and...
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Abusers created early
A violent early childhood may cause adolescent boys, who were sexually abused, to abuse other children, according to a study by David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health and researchers from Great...
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Transplant division
HOSPITAL doctors, GPs and the public need to agree a set of ethical priorities for the allocation of organ transplants, conclude researchers from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. James...
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Spooked by vibrations
Low-frequency sound waves could explain ghostly hauntings, according to Coventry University researchers. Vic Tancy and Tony Lawrence found that trapped sound waves in a laboratory reputed to be...
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Watch that bend!
There would be fewer road accidents if we knew more about the geometry of bends in the road, researchers at Middlesex University Business School have concluded. Compiling road accident data with...
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Death knell for clams
CLAMS and mussels that block factory cooling pipes fed by river water could soon be dislodged from their comfortable environment. Southampton University scientists are heading a European project to...
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Crises engulf leaders
A crisis of leadership is bedevilling South Africa's 36 universities and technikons, according to a report by a United States marketing expert. There is so little stability that it is "virtually...
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Fees blamed as enrolments fall
Higher tuition charges are being blamed for a sudden fall in Australian university enrolments. It is only the second time in 15 years that the number of freshers has dropped. The last fall was in...
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Industry urges Japan's engineers to get practical
Japanese universities are being urged to improve standards in their engineering faculties as fears mount that the country is losing its competitive edge. The content of engineering courses, the...
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US shifts to funding by results
State funding for colleges and universities in the United States is increasingly being matched to "results" in a shift that mirrors experiments in accountability in Britain and Australia. More than...
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Border students go Dutch
German students living near the Dutch border are beating overcrowding in their local universities by crossing the border to study at universities in the Netherlands. Dutch higher education...