Par for the race course
Oxford and Cambridge universities are stepping up their outreach campaigns to attract more non-traditional students. The universities are on tour, hoping to attract sixth formers to events designed...
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Don's diary: Minefield Memoirs
March 2002 Radio 4 announces that I am going to Afghanistan as an artist commissioned by the Imperial War Museum. I am still struggling to find a way into the country, let alone plan an itinerary. It...
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Why I believe science administrators do more harm than good
How do you promote innovative science and start a scientific revolution? Historians and philosophers have long puzzled over this, as have science administrators hoping to foster breakthroughs through...
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Sex and the Hildabeast
Women-only colleges have served their purpose; it's time for St Hilda's to move on, says Hilda Brown. As a non-Oxford graduate, my experience of Oxford University spans 40 years of working with an...
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Super-search tool
Academics backed by the Joint Information Systems Committee are working on a super-search engine to make the internet more useful for scholars. Other Jisc-backed projects were singled out for praise...
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UK-US e-learning deal
A £6 million deal to develop online learning and teaching was signed this week by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Science Foundation. The five-year programme will pool the...
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Cash for energy plans
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Edinburgh and Dundee universities have been given more than £2 million from the government's community energy scheme. The scheme,...
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Explain it all to the public? Labsolutely
Chemistry students learn theory diligently, but conveying what a chemist does is a different skill. Nigel Lowe and John Garratt conducted an experiment to broaden minds There are more research...
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FE buildings 'unfit'
More than 40 per cent of buildings in Welsh further education colleges are not fit for their current use, according to a report from the auditor general for Wales. Bringing the estate up to scratch...
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£2m for climate study
A £2 million initiative designed to give new direction to climate-change research was announced this week. The programme, which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,...
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Plaudits for Edinburgh
Skill Scotland, the advisory body for students with disabilities, has praised Edinburgh University's proposed admissions shake-up that will consider whether applicants have disabilities.
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£5.5bn buys single-track universities
Stark new divisions emerged today between teaching and research-led universities as England's higher education budgets were set for 2003-04. A £5.5 billion allocation represents a 6 per cent rise...
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St Hilda's edges towards co-ed future
The last remaining women's college at Oxford University looks poised to admit men as resistance to change wanes. Undergraduates at St Hilda's College voted last week to retain the status quo - but...
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In the news: Marc Abrahams
His bank manager might not see the similarities, but in many ways, Marc Abrahams' life has mirrored that of Bill Gates. Both studied mathematics at Harvard University in the mid-1970s and both went...
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Appointments
James Humphreys , head of corporate communications at 10 Downing Street, has been appointed director of a masters course in politics at Kingston University, teaching political communication...