Cutting costs at a stroke abroad
Frank Booty investigates how Europe's heritage is being digitised in Asia and the Caribbean. What have Euromoney magazine, HMSO publications, The Bible in English, Diploma of Achievement student book...
Frank Booty investigates how Europe's heritage is being digitised in Asia and the Caribbean. What have Euromoney magazine, HMSO publications, The Bible in English, Diploma of Achievement student book...
Chapter 3. Henry spent an uncomfortable night trying to fight off the feeling of being hoist on his own petard. He kept reminding himself that despite this setback, the plan itself had worked like a...
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
Academics at the artistic end of the higher education spectrum are facing a dilemma over how to respond to the multimedia revolution. They are trying to decide whether the whizzkids of new technology...
I attended the Association of University Administrators' Conference in Bristol last month. The prospect of so many university administrators all together would be daunting to the most resilient vice...
Today is the deadline for submissions to the Secretary of State for Education's review of higher education. Our reports of the evidence that has been pouring in show eagerness for expansion,...
Sunday. The heavy snow ten days ago broke dozens of branches off the trees, especially the poplars and ashes, so most of the day gets spent on amateur tree surgery. The bonfire has lasted two days so...
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TUESDAY. On the internal flight from Toronto to Vancouver, an airline stewardess anxiously asks me if I have a spare "loonie". Coming from a mainstream psychiatric setting in a university hospital, I...
Tim Cornwell reports on the perils for academics of relying on Hollywood's version of history. Hollywood's take on history is back in the news with the latest work of the man called, for good or ill...
Monday: Collect 31 forms for the end-of-term feedback. Horrified to discover that they are all the same for lecture courses, practical sessions and tutorials. We are asking students to grade their...
CHAPTER 1. Henry sat on the low wall surrounding the car park of the engineering faculty, staring at a row of quaint Victorian terraced houses with bay windows. He drummed his fingers on the attache...
Jenny Wallace talks to Marilyn Butler, erstwhile journalist and English professor and the first female rector of formerly all-male Exeter College. Exeter College is tucked in between the scholarly...
Alison McNab and Ian Winship point to the best of the Web for novice and experienced scientists. Many people's experience of the Internet is a frustrating one, with connections being slow and useful...
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...