Scottish Knowledge secures investment
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...
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IT entrepreneur invests
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...
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Web widens
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...
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Games guide
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...
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Virtual or corporate
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...
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Closing the gap
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...
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Agilent initiative
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...
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Time government master freed the research servants
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...
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Shake up system before getting down to business
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...
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Why I... believe the Scottish MA should be preserved
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...
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Racists in our house
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...
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Refuse ILT's invitation to join
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...
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For the record
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...
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Uni boss's pay tops Pounds 250,000
Britain's highest paid academic has broken through the Pounds 250,000 barrier, The THES can reveal. John Quelch, dean of the London Business School, earned Pounds 252,000 from public funds in the...
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For the record
Dundee University drugs research has been given a Pounds 1.3 million boost. Researchers, backed by the Medical Research Council, have been working with a consortium of major companies to create new...