Britain's leading brewing yeast research centre has joined forces with a private-sector company to market and sell its expertise to beer makers worldwide. Based at the Institute of Food Research in...
Research into distance learning reveals that student frustrations with technology and its implementation can inhibit educational opportunities. A study by Rob Kling, professor of information science...
Scotland's universities and colleges have signed a partnership deal valued at Pounds 3.54 million with News International to become a worldwide distance learning distributor. Scottish Knowledge plc...
The TB Hunter Charitable Trust, established by Tom Hunter, the entrepreneur behind Sports Division, is donating Pounds 5 million to expand Strathclyde University's entrepreneurship division. The...
Coventry University is making use of the latest internet technology to create an integrated online learning environment. More than 2,000 modules on the university curriculum are supported through...
The University of Abertay, Dundee, has appointed a leading European specialist in virtual reality and digital media to direct its unique International Centre for Computer Games and Virtual...
A conference on the market for global distance learning will hear results of an international parallel study into the impact of virtual and corporate universities on higher education. The conference...
Public and private sector representatives have joined a team tackling the inequality in digital access in the United Kingdom. The Information and Communications Technology Strategy Group is jointly...
Scottish academics have welcomed plans for a world-class research laboratory that they hope will boost graduate employment. Agilent Technologies, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, is to set up a lab...
This week, unusually, education secretary David Blunkett has turned his attention to research, especially in the social sciences (page 36). The attention is welcome, but the message is muddled. Mr...
A cultural sea-change is needed if universities are to produce great entrepreneurs as well as world-class academics, writes Stephen Court. Higher education is at the heart of the government's...
Sir Graeme Davies Principal, Glasgow University. The Scottish master of arts is not an ordinary undergraduate degree. When it was proposed in the recent Quality Assurance Agency consultation that...
Racism is entrenched in universities, but there is no momentum for change, argues Lola Young. Consider the following: a black female lecturer is given the results of a student survey of a course she...
Don't pay Pounds 75 to the Institute for Learning and Teaching, say Tim Unwin and Richard Hodgkins. The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is intended to enhance the status of...
George Bain, vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has condemned the 11-plus selection system for breeding "social apartheid". Professor Bain, speaking at a school prize-giving, said he...