Ofsted style is set for the dustbin
Quality watchdogs are expecting to win support for a new quality assurance system that avoids Ofsted-style inspections. They say higher education leaders are showing signs of backing plans that would...
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Trouble in store for new quality regime
The Quality Assurance Agency could find itself in conflict with the new Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, a former quality chief has warned, writes Tony Tysome. In a paper...
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Art rises to time's challenge
Artists at the London Institute and physicists at Cern, Europe's particle-smashing laboratory in Geneva, plan to collaborate to bring the mysteries of time and the sub-atomic world to the public. Ken...
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Appointments
Northern School of Contemporary Dance Sharon Donaldson, former dancer with Spiral and Extemporary and Phoenix Dance and choreographer, has joined the teaching staff. Noticeboard is compiled by Lynne...
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West by north-east
JANET bandwidth to North America doubles this month, with 45Mbps new capacity from Teleglobe. Their cable comes ashore at Redcar, the Teesside resort famed for its against-the-odds tourist marketing.
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Cern leader prepares for top UCL post
Chris Llewellyn Smith, the head of Cern, will see in the millennium with what his predecessor calls the "best job in British higher education". Professor Llewellyn Smith will take over as provost of...
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MRC reveals grants
The winners of the Medical Research Council's cooperative grants have been announced. The grants, proposed last May as part of a reorganisation of MRC awards, are designed to foster collaboration...
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Cash for female participation
British universities with the best policies for increasing female participation in science, engineering and technology could soon be rewarded with substantial cash grants, writes Julia Hinde. A...
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Sun alive with twisters
STORMS of hot gas as wide as the earth and 1,000 times faster than tornadoes have been observed spiralling from the sun's surface, writes Julia Hinde. Concentrated around the sun's polar regions,...
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Midlands by numbers
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links * 255,609 students enrolled at...
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Warwick's industry turns profit from academic expertise
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The University of Warwick is...
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Networks lead to higher road
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links Universities in the Midlands are...
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Business backers
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The potteries industry in...
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Haunted by history
(Photograph) - A caricature of Claude Allegre looks down on an occupation of the Sorbonne 30 years after les evenements de mai rocked France. The protesters were students and lecturers from the...
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A sector seeking a region
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links When Maxwell Irvine arrived at...