Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has hailed the Institute for Learning and Teaching as proof of Scottish higher education's continuing bond with the...
A set of distance learning accreditation courses for higher education teachers has been launched by the Open University in anticipation of the first wave of business for the Institute for Learning...
A wave of resignations could hit the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, which has been "split from top to bottom" over chief executive Diana Warwick's peerage, it emerged this week. Vice-...
Jennifer Currie reports on how the new universities' quest for fame has fuelled the rise of the honorary degree. If every honorary graduate followed the precedent set by Samuel Johnson, the world...
Why has senior lecturer David Hookes been selected for redundancy by Coventry University when the vice-chancellor has already met his announced targets for staff cuts? Many of his colleagues believe...
Entrepreneur Mark Rowse tells Geoffrey Davies that content is king - and he's buying it bigtime. Academic life has traditionally not offered huge opportunities for entrepreneurs. The culture of...
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts plans to use convergent technologies to nurture the geniuses of the next generation. Nesta's triple-headed assault - by exploration,...
The 'mechanic arts' colleges of the US are gearing up for the next century with the net, Tony Durham reports. They may have been founded to teach agriculture and the "mechanic arts", but the state...
Australia's universities face a serious loss of their IT academics to the private sector unless their salaries and resources are greatly improved, according to the Australian Computer Society. The...
ITP Business Press is encouraging lecturers to make its books required reading on their courses, with an offer of free online access to related backlist titles. Participating academics and students...
(Photograph) - Pole position: Annette Routledge's computer-art "Totem 1", shown at the final degree show, University of Brighton last week and now part of the Gamut exhibition curated by Sue Gollifer...
Surely, both Gordon Pearson and Staffordshire University were in the wrong in their handling of the plagiarism cases (Whistleblowers and Opinion, THES, July 2)? It is right to argue that the role of...
I congratulate Gordon Pearson for stating his strongly held views against recent cases of proven plagiarism. I also pay tribute to his courage and integrity. Like many academics, I fully support his...
Mandatory expulsion is certainly one way of dealing with plagiarism. Another way, which both academics and students may consider fairer, and therefore more appropriate, is to assess the context of...
It was irritating to find myself misquoted in the article "Students reject complaints code" (THES, July 2). The consequence of the misquotation should not be a distortion of a debate of central...