Learning through IT
A £6 million research project to use technology to improve learning was announced on Wednesday. The Teaching and Learning Research Programme, run by the Economic and Social Research Council, will...
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Care leavers' guides
Two guides will be launched on Tuesday to help more young people in care enter university. The guides, published by the Who Cares? Trust, are aimed at young people, carers and professionals and cover...
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Meeting their match
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's Deputy First Minister, this week launched an Pounds 870,000 scheme to boost knowledge transfer. Interface, backed by the Scottish funding council, will provide a free...
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Boost for Aberdeen
Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University is investing £115 million over the next decade in creating four "academic precincts" for art, business, health and technology with some of the best facilities in...
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Correction
We listed the wrong grant totals for the following institutions in our table on allocations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in last week's issue. The following figures (in...
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Mp3 - easy as one, two, three...
Salvation is at hand for academics exasperated by students' feeble grasp of mathematics. Students will be able to download free tutorials and exercises to their iPods from a website called "Mathtutor...
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£25m will ease pain for losers from RAE
New universities will receive the lion's share of a £25 million fund to improve research-based teaching, The Times Higher can reveal. The amount allocated to a university from the fund will be in...
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London looks at roads to reform
A group of senior academics is to consider whether the role of vice-chancellor at the University of London would be better served by the heads of its colleges filling the post in rotation in place of...
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In toon
Oscar-winning film-making firm Aardman Animations is set to sign an exclusive deal with the University of the West of England to help design degree courses in film animation, writes Chloe Stothart....
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London Met staff win contract fight
London Metropolitan University was last week ordered to pay £160,000 to 23 staff in what is thought to be the first "class action" in higher education for unfair dismissal. An employment tribunal...
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After rent, some are left with little more than a bean
The Sodexho- Times Higher University Lifestyle survey shows money worries preying on an increasingly sober lot of students. Anna Fazackerley reports Students of law may expect to rake in the cash...
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More choose not to booze
The Sodexho- Times Higher University Lifestyle survey shows money worries preying on an increasingly sober lot of students. Anna Fazackerley reports Student life has traditionally been characterised...
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Dreary 'office life' begins early for those who stay at home
The Sodexho-Times Higher University Lifestyle survey shows money worries preying on an increasingly sober lot of students. Anna Fazackerley reports British universities are populated by a growing...
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Financial fears force students to juggle work and study
The Sodexho- Times Higher University Lifestyle survey shows money worries preying on an increasingly sober lot of students. Anna Fazackerley reports Students are working increasingly long hours to...
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Continent's little guys that dare to think big
SMALL EUROPEAN STATES Elite universities are the flavour of the moment in Europe. In their different ways, Germany and Austria in particular are deliberately setting out to create universities that...