Surfers ride into careers
Traditionalists who mocked Plymouth University's controversial "surfing degree" as one of the worst examples of dumbing down were invited to eat their words this week as the first cohort of graduates...
Traditionalists who mocked Plymouth University's controversial "surfing degree" as one of the worst examples of dumbing down were invited to eat their words this week as the first cohort of graduates...
ART AND DESIGN- Monument Wars: Washington, DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial LandscapeBy Kirk Savage, associate professor and chair of the department of art and...
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Electronic Markets: Benefits, Costs and RisksEdited by Craig Standing, professor of strategic information management, Edith Cowan University. Palgrave...
CANADASTUDENT 'PLAGIARISED' VIA FACEBOOKA debate about plagiarism and collusion has arisen after a Canadian student was accused of cheating via Facebook. A first-year computer engineering student at...
UK and German universities are now doing what the US and Australia are old hands at - tapping alumni for cash. But Italians still think it's all rather vulgar... A significant proportion of the A$120...
AUSTRALIA has three times as many women vice chancellors as it did a year ago. Up until 1987, every vice chancellor in Australia was a male - and had been since the University of Sydney was founded...
Thousands of prospective university students in Australia will not know until late next month what course fees they will have to pay in January. The students have to complete their applications for...
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS Research Councils Science and innovation minister, Lord Sainsbury, announced appointments to the councils as follows: Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research...
Open University Fellow: Kenneth Berrill, former chief economic adviser to the Treasury, head of the Cabinet Office think tank and first head of the Securities and Investment board. Honorary doctorate...
Quality monitoring processes in Australia's public universities have improved markedly over the past 12 months, according to the government's quality audit committee. In its second report since 1993...