Phoenix takes a nosedive
Some of the gloss has rubbed off the University of Phoenix, the private university network seen as a threat to United States higher education. The university's parent company, Apollo Group Inc, has...
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Professors refuse to sign up to act
Serbian academics who refuse to accept legislation that has given the government day-to-day control of the universities are risking dismissal from their jobs. A new university act, introduced last...
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Fees rebellion by instalments
Israel's national student union this week intensified its campaign for lower tuition fees by calling on its members to rebel. Half-page advertisements in all the leading newspapers encouraged...
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Leiden drops state connection in protest at cash cuts
Dutch universities are preparing to face more cuts from the new government. Heads of many universities fear for their future under education minister Loek Hermans, who is expected to carry out a...
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Reviews
Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli published by AAAI Press/MIT Pres, 320pp, Pounds 29.50, ISBN 0 262 69206 6 The...
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The self-taught star
Steve Grand got only two A levels but enjoyed crystallising DNA and "running amok with radioactivity" in the school science labs. The self-taught biologist decided to create a real ecosystem within a...
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Help for science women
An online mentoring scheme in the United States could help reduce the number of women students who drop out of engineering and science courses. MentorNet aims to link 5,000 female students with...
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Big Tees
An initiative to develop high-quality education and skills, improve business competitiveness and enhance the quality of life for local people in the North-east by exploiting information age...
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Cisco kids
The University of Edinburgh is running the first UK-based Cisco Networking Academy Programme, a joint venture between Internet hardware maker Cisco Systems and the education sector. The university's...
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Teaching ideas on web
A project to establish a "virtual" reading group on learning and teaching in higher education has won a grant from the Staff and Educational Development Association. The project, managed by Paul...
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Grades of failure
Should students be given grades or just marked as pass or fail? A researcher at Brighton University has tested this question on two groups of students and found that withholding grades appears to...
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Alladin's lamp
The Alladin project - autonomous language learning in art and design using interactive networks - has won Pounds 0,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Department of...
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Credit for foreign study
Coventry University's educational development unit is working on ways to give ethnic minority women more opportunities to study. The idea is to develop IT skills and encourage women with...
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Joint pastoral care
Leeds University has set up a centre for joint honours degrees and is recruiting part-time personal tutors from teaching departments to help with pastoral care. The university said the aim of the...
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Oxford recruiting drive
Oxford University is to send promotional videos to about 4,000 secondary schools, further education and sixth-form colleges in a drive to recruit more state-sector pupils. The ten-minute video...