HEQC aims single agency salvo at Shephard
The Higher Education Quality Council is to send proposals for a single system of academic quality assurance to the education and employment secretary, Gillian Shephard. The document argues: "Ultimate...
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Honorary degrees
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. DEng: Iain Vallence, chairman of British Telecommunications. DLitt: Vivienne Westwood, fashion and textile designer; Martin Kemp, British Academy Wolfson research professor at...
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Exhibitions
IMAGES OF INDIA. Images of India - an exhibition of photographs by Graham Brandon will be on show at The Commonwealth Institute's Bhownagree Gallery until August 6. The portraits of the people...
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Events
FURTHER AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION A conference, "Research and Change in Further and Vocational Education", will be held at the University of Greenwich, July 19-21. For teachers, managers and those...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY, David Ross, head of molecular and life sciences; Mike Swanston, reader in business studies. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Derek McAuley, lecturer at Cambridge University's computer...
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Appointments
SFHEA. Eric Smith has been appointed general secretary of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association to succeed Graham Alison. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Christopher Ellis, former acting...
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Trussing saves the joint
A radical metal jointing system which could halve the costs of building stadiums, public halls and hangars has completed its early development in Dundee University's department of civil engineering....
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Safety experts know the ropes of paragliding
The soaring popularity of paragliding as a leisure pursuit and sport has prompted researchers to examine ways of making it safer. A growing number of people are taking to the skies with distinctive...
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Plastics get a splash of colour
Bored with hi-fis and televisions in those uniform black casings? If a revolutionary invention by Warwick Manufacturing Group's Gordon Smith is taken up, hi-fi and television makers using plastic for...
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Not just a lot of old Tosh
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...
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A book by any other name
Richard Poynder scours the Net for resources for the humanities and offers some good starting points. For those prepared to make the effort of seeking it out, there is a rich seam of material on the...
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Computers are best when hidden
Bookshops have rows of computer books, usually very thick paperbacks with yellow spines. I do not know why yellow is so popular, but the books are thick because there's so much to learn about...
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Accent on acute demand for details
Stella Hughes reports on a Francophone project which aims to put African researchers on the World-Wide Web. For under-resourced, isolated researchers in Africa, the Internet holds the tantalising...
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Home alone and learning
John Davies meets a champion of high-tech education for the Third World. Lalita Rajasingham would seem well qualified to talk, as she does, about thinking globally and acting locally. Her parents...
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Scope for a second French revolution
Move over Disneyland, education has the news. Stella Hughes reports on the futurist ambitions of France's learning theme park. Over the past few years a site near Poitiers has been steadily...