Hostage of exam fortune
Gordon Kirk suggests a national agency to manage external examining, training opportunities for external examiners, national standards for sampling, the format of reporting and other matters, and the...
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Austudy fraud case flawed
Geoff Maslen's report "Asians find 'study for free' loophole in Australia" (THES, December 16) mentions a study I co-authored about uptake rates of Austudy, Australia's government-financed support...
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Aids experts defend results
Leading Aids researchers claimed this week that they are being unfairly criticised for slow progress in finding a cure for the virus. They are also concerned that the Medical Research Council has...
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Coup d'oeil
(Photograph) - Coup d'oeil: Twelve artists from diverse cultural traditions are exhibiting at Nottingham Trent University's Bonington Gallery until January 28. The theme of cultural heritage ranges...
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Auditor eyes loans company
The National Audit Office is planning a fresh inquiry into the Student Loans Company, which is expected to report by mid-July. It also investigated the SLC in 1993. Sir Eric Ash, acting chief...
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Poster campaign warns against plagiarism
A thousand posters warning students against the temptation of plagiarism are going up around Wolverhampton University after it launched a major publicity campaign. Appeals officer Sharan Hasluck said...
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Scientists call for genetic freeze
Commercial interests are preventing geneticists from warning the public of the dangers of genetically engineered organisms, a group of scientists has warned. They have appealed to scientists to sign...
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Warwick Pounds 40m deal
Science minister David Hunt this week announced a Pounds 40 million link-up between the University of Warwick and design and manufacturing firm Computervision. The research and education...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Quality official predicts failures
More universities will face the prospect of departments receiving the equivalent of "unsatisfactory" quality gradings when the Higher Education Funding Council for England introduces its new system...
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THES taps into academic interest on the Net
The majority of British academics, even in the least technological disciplines, are users of advanced computer-based communications technology, according to a THES survey of readers. More than 85 per...
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Oz option
The Labour Party's favoured option for a student charge is a system based on the Australian higher education contribution scheme, under which each student pays a portion of their tuition costs...
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There she blows
(Photograph) - The Royal Yachting Association's Seamanship Foundation has donated six Hunter Duette yachts to Southampton Institute to run the Young Skippers scheme. They are just part of a donation...
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Dock landed
Liverpool John Moores University signed an agreement this week with property firm London and General to take part in a Pounds 100 million science and technology park development in Birkenhead. The...
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Colleges lose EC cash fight
Halton College in Cheshire has lost a High Court battle to recover more than Pounds 3 million from its county council following a row over European funding. The college claimed that financial...