Italian plan to offer distance learning
Italy is trying to catch up with other countries in the development of distance learning. A committee of academics is to evaluate and, if suitable, authorise courses offered by state and private...
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Union reborn after years of oppression
In l981, Tariq Al-Mukhtar, newly elected president of the General Union of Students in Iraq (GUSI), was due to graduate from the University of Baghdad. Instead he found himself fleeing from Saddam...
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70% love their work
Most further education staff would recommend their college as "a good place to work", according to a report from the Learning and Skills Development Agency. The agency's annual staff satisfaction...
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Irish set up joint body
The nine universities on the island of Ireland have set up an umbrella body, Universities Ireland, to promote collaboration between institutions in the north and south. One of its first research...
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Web burdens hit staff
Online methods of working demanded by today's students have increased lecturers' workloads, according to a survey. Lecturers' union Natfhe found that unrealistic student expectations forced lecturers...
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Pay deal looks distant
The chances of agreeing a pay deal next week are "less than 50-50", say academic unions who hit stalemate in talks on new structures this week. The unions claim that employers are trying to build in...
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Edinburgh spin-off develops central store for intellectual assets
An Edinburgh University spin-off wants to help universities and colleges better manage "learning objects" such as academics' lecture notes, slides, reading lists and lab handouts because they are...
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Academy seeks to win converts
The launch of a national teaching quality academy rests on a vote by members of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education to dissolve their organisation this autumn. If agreed, the...
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Why I...believe university libraries can make a real difference in widening access
Librarians have an important but largely unsung role to play in helping students who are having difficulties coming to terms with studying. The imagination and the will are there to meet the...
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Boys learn better sitting next to girls Boys perform better at secondary school if they are made to sit next to girls, research showed yesterday. Separating them from their male friends helped them...
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University rich list How well endowed is your university? Chemical cakes and cocktails The world's leading organic chemists honour a colleague with their favourite recipes. Rational exuberance Howard...
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UK strategy for nanotech may be 'too little, too late'
The government's long-awaited nanotechnology strategy, to help the UK tap into a market worth a potential $1 trillion, may be too little, too late, an expert has warned. Commenting on last week's...
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'We'll replace pulped items,' pledges library
The British Library has promised to try to replace documents it has admitted were pulped "with insufficient regard to their research value" in a 1990s book cull, following an investigation by The...
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Scots universities told UK focus is not way forward
The principal of the University of Abertay Dundee has urged Scottish institutions to seize the opportunities offered by devolution and stop worrying about a brain drain south. In a graduation address...
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MPs savage white paper proposals
MPs tore into the government's higher education white paper this week with a report attacking most of its key proposals. The report, published on Thursday by the cross-party education and skills...