An edinburgh University project which uses new technology to allow pregnant women to be monitored at home rather than visiting a hospital specialist has won a major European award. The Telematic...
A Pounds 2.3 million virtual reality centre serving students and local industries will be housed in the latest showpiece building to rise on the formerly down-at-heel campus of the University of...
Videoconferencing will link the 12 institutions of Scotland's planned Highlands and Islands University, which are spread over an area larger than Belgium. In the Pounds 500,000 first stage of a...
Teachers as much as learners are reacting in very different ways to the challenge of electronic distance education. Mark Childs reports on a West Midlands business-campus project. The Pounds 8.3...
Kate O'Neill describes her email classroom experience in New York. I began teaching a course last year on global environmental politics through the Dial (Distance Instruction for Adult Learners)...
THE GOVERNMENT faces legal action from colleges protesting at instructions to stop enrolling new students because of problems with growth money, writes Harriet Swain. Solicitors for Newham College of...
THE spectre of industrial action returned to haunt universities this week as employers hinted that they may not support a pay review body for academic staff. The Association of University Teachers,...
(Photograph) - Students marched in Brighton this week to demand lesbian, gay and bisexual equality. Cath Fletcher, convenor of the National Union of Students Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Campaign, said...
The executive committee of the academic board at Birkbeck College has recommended transferring the institution's physics department to University College London. It is under threat because of...
University and college governing bodies should receive guidance on codes of practice accord-ing to a white paper published this week. The Governance of Public Bodies: A Progress Report is the...
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has set up a working group to consider what rules should govern the use of the name "university college". Its conclusions may feed into the Dearing...
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion FURTHER doubts surfaced this week about Government claims that graduate supply will soon outstrip...
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion ACCESS to higher education must be extended, not squeezed, the local government associations told...
LONDON's higher education should be integrated citywide with a possible "opted out" privatised tier of top research institutions, says a leading educationist. Gareth Williams, head of the policy...
JOBS and courses are under threat at Middlesex University as it faces up to a Pounds 3 million projected budget deficit. The former Middlesex Polytechnic has begun a thorough review of its academic...