Groups pave the way to work
GETTING students to work together on group projects is gradually catching on as a way of preparing students for work. But assessing such assignments has been a major obstacle, writes Alison Utley....
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Sages on stage loath to change
MANY lecturers are refusing to budge in the face of pressure to step down from the podium and embrace innovative teaching methods that hand authority back to the student. "The defensive tendency of...
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Shared bar bugs students
CAMBRIDGE University colleges are neglecting their students in the pursuit of private money, according to student leaders. Lucy Moses, president of Homerton College students union, said: "I...
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Oxbridge gives case for its fees
IT REPRESENTS a third of the money withdrawn from further education colleges this year for growth and roughly matches the spending by research councils so far on BSE. But is the Pounds 35 million in...
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A woman who would be president
THERE is one vote Mary McAleese cannot count on in next week's election for the president of Ireland: her own. Though entitled to be a candidate, and even having a holiday home in the Republic, the...
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Talks 'excluded' Irish communities
THE HISTORIC handshake between prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has been followed by the launch of an academic book on the peace process. The book is edited by Chris...
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Oddities of life on the benches
CHRONIC overcrowding, allegations of crudely sexist behaviour, public assumptions that you have absurdly long holidays. It would be easy to assume that academics who become Members of Parliament will...
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Bangor launch
THE University of Wales Bangor this week launched its Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, which is likely to coordinate Bangor's dementia action research programme, writes Iola Smith. The...
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... Many happy returns
"I NEVER had ambitions to be a bureaucrat," says the outgoing head of PPARC, Ken Pounds. After four years as the council's first chief executive, Professor Pounds says he is quite happy to be...
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Roving fellows, courtesy of The THES
COMMONWEALTH SINCE The Times Higher Education Supplement Exchange Fellowship was launched in the early 1970s, 24 Commonwealth academics have been supported to pursue their research in another...
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Labour's chance to shine on world stage
COMMONWEALTH Prime minister Tony Blair hosts the first Commonwealth summit in Britain for 20 years in Edinburgh this weekend COMMONWEALTH leaders meeting in Edinburgh this weekend are unlikely to...
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Wellcome appoints northern light
THE new director of the Wellcome Trust does not seem that certain about coming to London. He will miss his research and the northern pubs where he likes to listen to folk music and play in the...
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Ruthlessly ready for PPARC lifeI
AFTER three decades at the sharp end of theoretical physics research, Ian Halliday, head of physics at the University of Wales, Swansea, will swap his laboratory for the board room in April, when he...
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Biological boost
BRITAIN's biological scientists have gained a new voice with the creation of the UK Life Sciences Committee (UKLSC). The committee, formed by 12 societies representing 30,000 scientists working in...
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Medicine takes fast track
A REVOLUTION in British medical education could be just around the corner as plans to introduce three and four-year accelerated medical degrees go ahead. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory...