Graduate jobs boost
Big recruiters are anticipating better times ahead for ambitious graduate job- seekers, according to a study by Sussex University-based Institute of Employment Studies. Companies are expecting a busy...
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Nothing new in schools' scheme
New school-centred teacher training schemes are too much like those run by higher education institutions, according to a report published this week. In-house courses managed by schools consortia have...
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Dons take lessons in lecturing
As term starts a whole crop of new academics is facing its first students, The THES asks what support and training they get. Lecturers starting their first jobs this autumn face an unprecedented...
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Modular motivation found
Students on modular A level courses are better motivated, harder working, and more likely to gain high grades than their peers taking traditional A levels, according to a report released last week. A...
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AUT in contract fight
Lecturers' leaders in the old universities are campaigning to recruit and improve the position of contract research staff. The Association of University Techers says that despite many union...
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Cell alternative to animal testing
Reducing the numbers of animals used in scientific experiments is the aim of cellular research under way at Aberystwyth University's Institute of Biological Sciences. The institute has devised a...
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King Coal is an unhealthy soul
The high number of ex-miners registering as permanently sick and taking early retirement helps to explain why, contrary to expectations, the United Kingdom's coalfields have fewer people on the dole...
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Whitehall ex-chief welcomes probe
The largest-ever academic study of the workings of British government has been welcomed by a former head of the civil service. Lord Bancroft, head of the home civil service from 1978 to 1981 told the...
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Building block broken
State universities in Germany have received the go-ahead to seek private investment for building projects to ease chronic overcrowding of seminars and lecture theatres. The higher education planning...
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Cable shapes campus to come
The Mind Extension University is a United States cable television network run from Colorado, a channel for people "who want to be smarter, richer and more successful". It relays courses from...
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Malaysia sees role in market
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
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Coca's hidden agenda
Research in Bolivia is helping to throw new light on coca, which has been used for centuries by Andean peoples as a remedy for tiredness, altitude sickness and staving off hunger. It is also the raw...
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Older and wiser?
Dundee medical school announces today whether "fake schoolboy" Brian MacKinnon, who claimed he was 17 when in fact he was 32, will be allowed to keep his place. There are several good arguments...
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Precious unity must be kept
Agreement at last. As promised, Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard wrote late last week to the Committee of Vice Chancellors accepting in broad terms their proposals for quality...
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