Get smart with a nous test
Employability is the key to a job for graduates. Jonathan Brill describes a new test that gives students the chance to prove their skills and employers a measure of them Many jobs attract hundreds,...
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Beggars belief
Just when you were starting to think that the level of political debate could not fall much further without the protagonists starting to grunt, in steps alumnus to be proud of No: 85 with his...
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Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland
(Photograph) - Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland have produced a CD-ROM which stars a lifesize reconstruction of Robert the Bruce, who defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314. Iain...
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V-cs attack VAT and pay levels
VAT REGULATIONS and other "unnecessary and intrusive" rules and financial constraints on universities should be scrapped, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has told the Dearing inquiry...
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Private sector poised for boom
PRIVATE higher education could absorb rising student numbers without increasing the Government's education budget burden and without excluding students unable to pay tuition fees, a key private...
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Accredit where it's due
Students doing voluntary work may soon be able to gain a certificate recognising the skills they have gained. Scadu is pioneering the idea in eight student groups in early February. It hopes...
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Royal Society calls for teaching boost
THE ROYAL Society has told the Dearing inquiry into higher education that a teaching and learning council should be created to encourage innovative, high-quality teaching in universities, writes Kam...
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Royal Society calls for teaching boost
* A long-term study of graduate destinations has been submitted to the Dearing inquiry to help it make better estimates of graduate supply and demand, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain McNicoll, professor of...
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Imperial gets most research kit kitty
Imperial College, London, and Warwick University have come out in front of Oxford and Cambridge in a national competition for research equipment funding. Imperial was the biggest winner with five...
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New learning skill, new life off the street
While Labour leader Tony Blair was telling the Big Issue magazine his views on getting beggars off the streets, one of the magazine's vendors was putting his words into practice. Andy Loughe, who has...
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RAE forces HEFCE to juggle cash
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is preparing to balance difficult funding decisions for the next academic year against the financial impact of the research assessment exercise. After...
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Get social, skilled and chill out, academics told
Improved social support networks and the introduction of skills training could help academics cope better with stress, according to a stress expert, writes Chris Johnston. Susan Cartwright, a senior...
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'Messy' treaty for an electronic age
ACADEMICS and publishers are set to lock horns over the precise meaning of fair dealing as it relates to copyrighted material published and accessed electronically. Authors wish to define the scope...
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Sir Colin sticks up for the layperson
"I can't see a bigger issue than genetic science and its ethical implications now that the cold war is over." So says Nottingham University vice chancellor Sir Colin Campbell, who this month takes on...
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Wales gets genes jury
Researchers at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of Glamorgan have set up a national Citizens' Jury to consider ethical issues surrounding human genetic engineering....