Modules stir mixed reception
universities and colleges are increasingly adopting modularisation - the movement now involves around 90 per cent of the sector - but the way it is being introduced is causing resentment among staff...
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'Skewed' Ofsted reading report slammed
University of London academics who shot holes in a report on children's reading standards by the Office for Standards in Education say the organisation needs a few basic lessons in research technique...
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Sir Ron tells colleges: you must sell yourselves
The vast majority of employers still need convincing that university graduates are worth hiring, Sir Ron Dearing said this week. Sir Ron, giving details of the early progress of his higher education...
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The theatre with quite a good library attached
A missed train and a Canadian academic's passion for the Elizabethan theatre have brought a unique collection of 3,000 books on the Shakespearean theatre to London's Globe complex. In 1969 Don Rowan...
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National pay deals `at an end'
Universities and colleges attempting to avert an all-out strike over pay are offering staff enhanced local settlements, sparking claims that the national bargaining structure is finished. Cracks in...
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Techno triumphs
Eight further education colleges have received awards totalling Pounds 200,000 for projects using new teaching and learning technologies. Bilston Community College, Bromley College, City College...
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Students fall victim to French law
Research students arriving on exchange schemes as English assistants at Nanterre University have fallen foul of tough French immigration laws. Ten PhD students of United States, Canadian, Indian and...
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Simon Saunders of Coventry University
(Photograph) - Simon Saunders of Coventry University shows off the "ultimate car" for the year 2096 as envisaged by his transport design students. The vehicle, created in collaboration with design...
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Cash for colleges
Oxford University's academics will soon vote on whether to release a plot of land for a Pounds 20 million business school funded by Syrian entrepreneur Wafic Said. Valentine Cunningham explains why...
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Modules to modernity
Initial teacher training is in a mess, in part because politicians abolished quality control. Michael Barber proposes a fresh route to rigour and relevance. Most of the 10,000 new entrants to the...
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The awful choice of Clinton or ...
Honestly, it will be very hard for me to vote for Clinton. I voted for him in 1992 (the first time I voted for a presidential winner). However, his presidency has been seriously disappointing. Though...
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Rare Russian Masonic books stolen to order
Thieves have broken into one of Russia's leading historical public lending libraries and stolen part of a unique collection of rare Masonic books and a copy of the first book published in Russian....
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Students launch young voter registration drive
The practice of democracy is a lesson many United States university and college students have traditionally failed to learn, writes Jon Marcus. Twenty-five years after the voting age was lowered to...
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TIGER says missing sink is to be found in forests
Scientists appear to have solved the mystery of where huge quantities of man-made carbon dioxide are ending up after being pumped into the atmosphere, writes Kam Patel. Tropical forests were declared...