Heard but unsaid
Surprise all round at Senate House last week at the inaugural lecture of one of Britain's best-known historians. With the bold words "I have never been afraid to speak my mind", David Cannadine...
Search
-
-
Don's Diary
Monday. Start of the second and final week of a course I am delivering to 12 hardened CID men who now have to struggle with the academic demands of essays and group presentations. Most claim the last...
-
On the move
Jacqui Johnson, a lecturer in communications and media studies at Bracknell and Wokingham College, has been elected vice-president of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe. She will take up...
-
Mirjana Markovic
The name Mirjana means peace. But Mirjana Markovic, wife of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, has never really known any. She was born in 1942 in a forest when her teenage mother, Vera, was a...
-
UK inventors not cashing in
Of 371 US patents citing UK neuroscience papers, 13.1 per cent of the inventors named are from the UK but only 3.4 per cent of the owners are UK-based companies and individuals. Wellcome said: "There...
-
Bulgarians flock to Vienna
VIENNA Bulgarians now constitute the largest number of foreign students at one of Austria's largest universities. Out of a total student population of 22,000 at the University of Economics in Vienna...
-
French develop abbey habit
PARIS French students are discovering that the best way to improve their exam grades is to shut themselves away with monks. As the distractions of everyday life become harder to resist, a stay in an...
-
Ireland acts over high-tech skills shortage
DUBLIN The Irish government has announced an initiative aimed at heading off potential skill shortages in the information technology sector. An additional 5,400 higher education places will be...
-
Agony aunt
Q. My department is using more and more computer-aided learning and I detect that some of my students are becoming bored with pointing and clicking. How can this be avoided? A. Peter Murray-Rust,...
-
Radcliffe melds with Harvard
BOSTON Radcliffe College, the 120-year-old sister school of Harvard University, will cease to exist as an independent institution under a long-anticipated merger plan revealed last week. The...
-
Star Turn
Students at Glasgow University put a German intellectual slant on their sketches of disaster movies and Blind Date. Olga Wojtas sits in the audience at the end-of-term session Alison Phipps's German...
-
Make a friend of a paperbin
When in doubt, throw it out. Phil Race gives some tips on how lecturers can cut their workload and the stress that plays havoc with their health "I'm already working a 70-hour week." "With these...
-
NZ court forces Gould to rethink
WELLINGTON The powers of Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould have been curbed in a high court ruling that has been hailed as a landmark by New Zealand's Association of University Staff....
-
How to teach with excellence
WHAT. Henry Ellington presents his seven golden rules for becoming an excellent teacher when working at tertiary level. WHY. Tertiary-level teachers are having to change their way of work to provide...
-
Computer-deprived students end boycott but remain defiant
LIBREVILLE Students at Libreville's Universite Omar Bongo in Gabon have suspended a three-month boycott of classes and street demonstrations in protest at the absence of computers and internet...