Project tackles system crashes
A multimillion-pound joint research project to help prevent potentially disastrous computer failure in global stock markets has been launched. City University is joining forces with the universities...
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Americans offer $100 million grant to help Africa exploit the internet
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan hopes the offer of more than $100 million (Pounds 64 million) in grants for African universities from four prestigious American philanthropic organisations...
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Australia sees tech future with India
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
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Rules will take up time but may not improve subjects
The benchmarking statements for 22 subjects just produced by the Quality Assurance Agency (back page) are not easy reading. But no one can claim that they have been wished on academe by a hostile...
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Growth in demand will change business supply
Business and management course suppliers will have to adapt to the growing shortage of top educators, predicts Paul Danos The booming global economy demands well-trained and confident business...
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QAA publishes 'tick boxes'
The new quality assurance system set out for universities this week is "dangerously prescriptive" and could mean, in effect, a national curriculum, say its critics. The Quality Assurance Agency has...
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'Checklist' of student skills: QAA area guidelines
Benchmarks cover 22 subject areas, ranging from six pages for accounting to 32 pages for law. They make explicit the "techniques and skills" expected of graduates and "the intellectual demand and...
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Rector tries to block state plans for campus
The rector of a university in La Paz, the Bolivian capital, is threatening legal action to block government plans to open a new university on terms that he claims breach constitutional guarantees of...
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'Scrooge' spending on UK staff
United Kingdom spending on academic staff is among the lowest in the developed world, the Association of University Teachers revealed today on the eve of its annual council meeting, writes Phil Baty...
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Stockholm
The number of students at Sweden's universities and university colleges will be increased by 10,500 in both 2001 and 2002, the government has announced. An extra Skr5 billion (Pounds 363 million)...
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Don's Diary
Monday Discuss cover design of new monograph series to be launched at our annual conference in July. Cannot decide if Picasso-esque logo is cleverly ironic postmodern comment slyly capturing the...
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Read my lips
(Photograph) - Read my lips: Lucy Preston, an MA student in sculpture at Winchester School of Art, designed 156 different plastercast mouths for a piece of work about traditional story-telling....
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Bogota
A survey commissioned by Colombia's Luis Amigo University Foundation has revealed that students at Bogota's 18 university institutes are the city's highest consumers of alcohol and drugs.
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Sarawak
Malaysian assistant minister for finance Encik Michael Manyin Jawong has called for greater efforts to produce more graduates among Sarawak's indigenous Bidayuh people. The 166,700 Bidayuh make up 8...
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Will life improve for nurse trainees?
Parties with an interest in the government's review of funding for nursing tell Claire Sanders what they hope will change NEIL TURNER The government review of funding for nursing, midwifery and other...