E-madness diagnosed
Sixty-four teams of business students from around the world are taking the first steps towards e millionaire status. The teams are competing in the Hummer Winblad Venture Partner's "February Madness...
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Broadband leap
Universities worldwide are taking part in a 16-hour distance learning event, "Global Leap", on March 29 aimed at introducing young people to the benefits of the broadband internet. Participants...
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Glasgow is IT
The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association is bringing together more than 300 management-level staff from IT departments to consider strategic issues of concern to the sector in a...
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Ultra smart
Bristol University's computer science department has installed 100 cost-cutting workstations that use an office productivity application available on the internet. The Ultra Sparc units from Sun...
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Good of Fishel case could be in tighter contracts
A world with many types of university will have many types of academic - and a wide range of contracts between them. The High Court judgment in the case of Simon Fishel shows that whatever future...
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A gain of 3% is still a squeeze for the majority
This week's funding allocations for higher education in England show a continuing squeeze on higher education in general and, within the total, a winner-takes-all phenomenon. Overall cash is up 3 per...
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The uncertain future of foundation degrees
Something similar to David Blunkett's foundation degrees was tried years ago. Will it work this time? asks John Pratt When David Blunkett announced the new two-year foundation degrees, we could be...
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Why I......believe students need to prove they have been vaccinated against meningitis
We need to engineer ways to vaccinate students against meningitis. Perhaps we should issue documents as proof of vaccination. Then students would have to show their certificates before collecting...
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No poison lvy League
Labour MP explains why Tony Blair will not introduce top-up fees I strongly supported the introduction of tuition fees backed by loans two years ago, because, having worked in universities for ten...
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Discrimination is a 3-letter word
Will ministers admit that the RAE is the reason so few women hold top academic jobs? Dream on, says Peter Knight Universities are now under attack for underpaying female academics by an average of...
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Call for sector-wide top-up fees
Top-up fees must be introduced across the sector and not restricted to a handful of elite universities, Russell Group campaigners said this week. Sir Cohn Campbell, Nottingham University vice-...
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Scots reject rumours of tuition loophole bonanza
The Scottish Executive has dismissed speculation that applications to Scottish institutions will surge for the coming year because of a loophole whereby entrants will pay neither tuition fees nor a...
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Draft law criticised
A European law expert has warned that draft regulations covering part time workers in further and higher education are badly flawed, writes Harriet Swain. In a legal opinion delivered as the...
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Rivals bid for doctors in the house
Rival bids were launched this week to set up a medical school taking 600 new medical students within five years. The universities of Exeter and Plymouth have joined Truro National Health Service...
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Ofsted hints at hardline on FE
Schools standards chief Chris Woodhead has signalled a tough new approach to college inspections when Ofsted takes over as the further education watchdog. Mr Woodhead, chief inspector of schools,...