Trunk-aided guide to learning with a purpose
Passivity is the curse of digital learning but researchers at the OU have developed a solution, Stephen Pritchard reports Academics with reservations about computer-based learning often worry that...
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Failing teachers face online ratings from students
Students at Montreal's Concordia University will now be able to exchange stories about those professors who themselves deserve failing grades, thanks to a new website for evaluating professor...
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Charge of the freedom thinkers' brigade
Joseph Saunders describes the worldwide civil rights' work of the Academic Freedom Programme Academics are favourite targets of tyrants. Universities provide a protected space for free inquiry and...
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Welcome to the website forum for bright ideas
One of the main aims of The THES is to offer the academic community a forum for debate. This week we are extending our ability to do so. In partnership with the policy and ideas network, Nexus, we...
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Silent reflection
(Photograph) - Silent reflection: Adrian Hickford as 'Phantis' and Tim Whitten as 'Scaphio' in dress rehearsal for Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited to be performed by Southampton University's...
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Star Turn
The diva of English literature woos Paul Bompard with words at a lecture on Virginia's Woolf's Mrs Dalloway at Villa Mirafiori, Rome The Villa Mirafiori in Rome, a sprawling, late 19th-century house...
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A trip along the Piccadilly on-Line
Catherine Scott describes an experiment in thought transfer between British and American young people My students at the University of North London recently took part in an experiment in online group...
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Call for Keele inquiry
Academics at Keele University are demanding an internal inquiry into the controversial sale of rare mathematics books for Pounds 1 million to a book dealer. They argue that the university broke its...
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Student rescue package extended
A government scholarship scheme to help cash-strapped Southeast Asian students on courses in Britain has been left with Pounds 900,000 of unused money. The government and the British Council have...
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Scottish Knowledge signing deal
Scottish Knowledge, which exports Scotland's expertise in education and training, is signing a deal with two Malaysian institutions which, it believes, could be worth Pounds 20 million over the next...
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GMC approves regular testing for doctors
The General Medical Council voted overwhelmingly this week to implement regular testing of doctors to ensure they are fit to practise. Doctors who fail the tests could be struck off.
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UCAS splits from education info firm
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has parted from education information company ECCTIS 2000. UCAS is to sell its 30 per cent shareholding in the company
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German degree overhaul proposed
Hamburg Germany's top higher education advisory body is developing a higher education system that would replace the country's traditional diplom four-year-plus degree with international-style...
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League tables may end in tiers
The push towards local universities with policies to widen access was strengthened this week by government proposals for new league tables. The government has drawn up indicators to show how each...
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Social divisions traced in old binary divide
New statistics onstudents from poorer backgrounds in higher education show huge variations betweeninstitutions, writes Harriet Swain. Research by Bob Osborne, professor of applied policy studies at...