Mega-classes lead to new methods
LECTURERS are increasingly abandoning the lectern in favour of other teaching methods, according to the interim findings of a survey of universities. Harold Silver, who is conducting the survey for...
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Technology for art's sake gets share of Pounds 10m
THE third phase of a Pounds 10 million programme to develop technology for improving teaching in higher education is being announced this week, writes Alison Utley. Thirty-two new university projects...
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Cash boost could be more costly
The Association of Scottish Colleges has challenged the Scottish Office announcement of anPounds 8 million boost for further education, warning that colleges face the loss of almost Pounds 1.5...
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'Recipe for confusion'
Government proposals for Regional Development Agencies are "a recipe for confusion, duplication and frustration", the House of Commons select committee for education and employment said this week. "...
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Too fast is bad
The rapid expansion of franchised further education is damaging quality, college inspectors warned this week. Colleges' collaborative arrangements with private employers and community organisations...
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Bladders open to help fathom currents
A flotilla of "inflatable bladders" that helped map deep ocean currents has led oceanographers at Southampton University to discover defects in global weather forecasting computer models. Southampton...
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Breast milk danger
DANGEROUS levels of chemicals found in breast milk may trigger cancer, scientists have found. The chemical pollutants DDT (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) have...
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Colour sight probed
How the brain perceives colour is under study by scientists at Keele University to help improve image transfer on the Internet and develop robotic vision. A team, led by Stephen Westland in the...
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Colour sites guide
Researchers at Reading University have completed a series of projects into how colour and tone contrast in the built environment can help partially sighted people navigate better and identify...
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Pasta detectives' deal
Scientists who found a way to detect pasta impostors have signed a licensing agreement with a national food diagnostics company. Kits for detecting poor-quality wheat substituted into durum wheat...
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Winds' effect on winters gauged
A transatlantic collaboration could soon be under way as scientists try to shine new light on the weather phenomenon responsible for bringing Britain its recent run of wet and warm winters. American...
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Breakdown of the cash
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has allocated Pounds 3,867million to institutions this year - representing a 2.7 per cent increase of public money in cash terms but a real-terms...
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Revoke student ban - Leakey
Opposition politicians in Kenya have delivered an ultimatum to public universities to re-admit all students expelled over the years for their involvement in pro-democracy demonstrations. Led by...
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Monash toehold in Malaysia market
MALAYSIA has granted Monash University of Australia a licence to establish a campus in the country. After two years of negotiations, Monash will open its seventh campus - its first outside Australia...
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Savers penalised for parsimony
INDIAN higher education's longest-running controversy - the funding of universities - has been given a new twist with the University Grants Commission's plans to link the grant to average expenditure...