That elusive out-of-print tome could soon in the hands of the searching academic with the launch of a print-to-order book service. Macmillan are now offering an on-demand service for out-of-stock...
Digital art is still viewed as the poor relation to painting, sculpture and even photography by many in the arts establishment. Claire Neesham investigates Earlier this autumn the Colville Place...
Amartya Sen has accepted Kingston University's offer of an honorary degree. Professor Sen will be in Stockholm collecting his Nobel prize in economics on the day of the official ceremony - but will...
Last December Graham Lane, the ebullient Labour education chairman of the Local Government Association, got a nice Christmas present. The government set up a further education student support...
Mind-bender Fender In an attempt to promote openness, the Higher Education Funding Council for England held its first open day last week. Chairs of university governing bodies and staff from...
Robert Beattie, community investment coordinator with IBM UK Ltd, has been appointed chairman of the new Scottish Further Education Funding Council, which will be set up on January 1. Mr Beattie is...
South Africa's search for a new ethics must involve everybody in a living bill of rights, says Brenda Gourley Academic diversity, some claim, can lead easily to moral and ethical apathy. It has been...
Europe's historical powder keg continues to smoulder as international efforts to bring peace to the Serbian province of Kosovo are confused by mixed signals from Belgrade. While Yugoslav president...
Essex University has set up an Pounds 25,000 annual fund to encourage innovation in teaching and learning. Staff can bid for up to Pounds 5,000 for individual projects with collaborative bids linking...
Students nowadays are more mature, resourceful and realistic, but is over-assessment pushing them too hard, asks Jim Parry When we moan about workloads, it is the growing demands on academics that...
The all-work and no-play way to a degree Jim Gardner, National Union of Students vice-president for education, says there is a strong case for integrating study skills into the undergraduate...
The use of learning outcomes such as employability skills seems to be gaining respectability (THES, November 13; November 20), yet they embody aims and values that are the antithesis of what many...
Michael Bulley responds to Phil Race's article on learning outcomes (Letters, November 20) by criticising the use of jargon and saying he has no idea of what the learning outcome of his teaching is...
The British Council is targeting new overseas higher education markets in the wake of the Southeast Asian crisis. The council's Education Counselling Service, is spending nearly Pounds 1 million on...
Civil servants are seeking ways of encouraging more overseas students to come to Britain. An inter-departmental review has been launched in the wake of prime minister Tony Blair's visit to China in...