Trainees learn ropes
Staffordshire University has started management training for academic line managers using tests designed for Olympic swimmers and involving team building exercises with ropes. The programme aims to...
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Course for postgrads
The Open University has launched a course to train postgraduate students to teach undergraduates. The university hopes that the distance-learning course will become a key component of the Institute...
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Learning on internet
Stirling University is building up partnerships to promote distance learning through the internet. It has joined Glasgow Caledonian University in launching a new MSc in lifelong learning, which is...
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Staff face life ban for Islamic activities
Turkish academics face a life-long ban from their universities and the loss of all academic titles if they engage in "anti-Ataturk activities", which are held to be attempts to challenge the...
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Models from Manchester
Universities will soon be invited to bid for a share of the Pounds 25 million to set up eight Enterprise Institutes. The Department of Trade and Industry said details would be available in December....
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12,000 sign up to Labour's New Deal
More than 12,000 young people have signed up to full-time training and education options under the government's New Deal for the young unemployed, employment minister Andrew Smith confirmed late last...
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Brown's enterprise flagships
Higher education is to spearhead a revitalised enterprise culture in the United Kingdom with a package of measures designed to turn scientific discoveries into jobs. In his autumn pre-budget...
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Mission to Mars gets money extension
British plans to send a robotic lander to Mars in search of signs of life came a step closer this week as the European Space Agency gave the project the initial go-ahead. Colin Pillinger of the Open...
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Montreal
A liberal arts education poses no handicap for job-seekers, according to a Canadian study. Labour economist Robert Allen found recent Canadian graduates in social sciences and humanities have a 2.5...
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Message from the ministry
The government wants to create a new enterprise culture. Three ministers went on message this week to tell universities and colleges to get vocational David Blunkett The education secretary told the...
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China aims to lead
China has just created its largest university by merging four universities in eastern Zhejiang. Zhejiang University combines the old Zhejiang University with the province's medical and agricultural...
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More power in new synchrotron
Britain's new synchrotron source will cost about Pounds 170 million to build, science minister Lord Sainsbury told the House of Commons science and technology committee. The source will replace the...
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British Council upholds chief's belt-tightening
The shock departure this week of British Council director-general David Drewry will not affect the fundamental strategic review he initiated, the council said this week. The board endorsed his...
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Physicists pay survey reveals divide
University researchers are the most lowly paid of all physicists, according to a survey commissioned by the Institute of Physics. It found that researchers earn a median salary of Pounds 21,000....
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Sheffield raises PhD stipends
Sheffield University is to follow the research councils' lead by raising funding for the 350 PhD students it supports. The increase will cost the university Pounds 350,000 a year. Earlier this year...