Keeping the wolf from the door
Field trips, once a staple of geography teaching, are expensive and sometimes dangerous. Is the advent of computer simulation making them redundant? Alison Utley (top) and David Unwin look at the end...
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Join the club, gain status
The Institute of Learning and Teaching kicks off this autumn. Chairman Roger King looks its chances George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are "conspiracies against the laity". In...
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Virtual helicopters fly through time and space
Field trips, once a staple of geography teaching, are expensive and sometimes dangerous. Is the advent of computer simulation making them redundant? Alison Utley (top) and David Unwin look at the end...
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Excellence in teaching must have prizes
A Pounds 30 million fund is to be created to encourage better teaching in universities, says Bahram Bekhradnia (below). But the scheme is unlikely to generate real change, says Lewis Elton (far right...
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Excellence in teaching must have prizes
A Pounds 30 million fund is to be created to encourage better teaching in universities, says Bahram Bekhradnia (below). But the scheme is unlikely to generate real change, says Lewis Elton (far right...
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Star lecturer
Tony Tysome watches eminent conductor Sir Simon Rattle charm an orchestra as he leads it through a masterclass. It is not quite the usual 10.30am lecture. The students are all there long before it...
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Money for teaching
A FUND of about Pounds 30 million is to be set aside by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to reward excellent teaching. The bonus cash, which is likely to be of particular benefit to...
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Vote-rigging in Ulster
In the week of the Northern Ireland's historic assembly poll an electoral court has declared student union elections at Queen's invalid after widespread evidence of multiple voting. The extent of...
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Five alive
(Photograph) - Manchester University's Whitworth Art Gallery, exhibiting Sean Skully's painting Backcloth, was one of five university museums added this week to the Museum and Galleries Commission's...
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AoC cool on sleaze squeeze
Colleges have given only a tepid welcome to the government's plans to halt sleaze in the sector. Responding to the government's consultation paper, Accountability in Further Education, the...
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Fifth business carries into conciliation
European Union research ministers have voted to begin a conciliation process over the Framework V Programme budget before the summer. The move follows the European Parliament's decision to dismiss a...
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'Substantial' progress on Foresight
The government this week published its first report on the progress of UK government departments in becoming involved with Foresight, the UK initiative to identify and exploit future key areas of...
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Endowment clears parliamentary hurdles
The chairman and trustees of the new National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are expected to be announced in the next few weeks as the fund to support scientists and artists this week...
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Commons to investigate British Biotech crisis
The recent crisis at British Biotech, the Oxford biotechnology company accused of failing to disclose worrying developments with its drugs programme, will be the focus of a House of Commons Science...
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Kennedy to lead inquiry into Bristol deaths
Ian Kennedy, professor of health law, ethics and policy at University College, London, will chair the government's public inquiry into children's heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary. Earlier...