Steiner's art views fail to sway Scots
A call by philosopher George Steiner for the Edinburgh International Festival to recognise the "intellectual challenge" of science promotes an unnecessarily pessimistic view of the gap between arts...
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Bogus degree scandal discovered
The University of Zululand has just found out that officials have been awarding students false degrees. Now students and management are at loggerheads over how to tackle the fraud. A tip-off two...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. My daughter has just completed a course at Thames Valley University and Anna Tobin's...
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A swing to the bright
Geoff Andrews believes that Tony Blair's new Labour has jettisoned the anti-intellectual prejudices of old. The links between new Labour and intellectuals beyond the party are attracting much...
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Yiddish at SOAS
Yiddish is to be taught by London University's School of Oriental and African Studies following a deal with the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies. Oxford staff will teach language and literature...
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Art course rethink
Foundation courses for art and design students are under threat from changes in next year's admissions system, course tutors have warned. The University and Colleges Admissions Service is taking...
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By the horns
(Photograph) - Picture by Huw Evans By the horns: David Barrow, senior research associate at University of Wales College of Cardiff, removes a longhorn cow from the campus quadrangle during filming...
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Overseas hike
There has been a 20 per cent increase in overseas students choosing to study in Britain, according to revised figures from the British Council. The council had reported a 42 per cent increase between...
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English hold own in world maths league
English university entrants maintained their high achievements in maths and science relative to other countries over 20 years, according to an international round-up of educational achievement....
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Raising the roof on the mists of time
A Bronze Age timber house on stilts is being reconstructed for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, in a loch. Nicholas Dixon, research fellow in archaeology at Edinburgh University, and his team...
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British Library at the 'interchange'
The British Library has remodelled its research and development department as a national centre for analytical research utilising the latest online computer technology. The library has restyled its...
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Basic instinct
Dear Ron, I note that your committee will be concerned with higher education's contribution to basic, strategic and applied scientific research and how it should be enhanced to match international...
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Principal blew ESF whistle
The Department for Education and Employment has launched a major investigation after a college head blew the whistle on irregularities connected with potentially large amounts of European Social Fund...
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Software to combat disasters
University scientists have designed a unique computer software package to help avert such tragedies as the Heysel Stadium disaster, the recent bomb explosion in Atlanta, or even the Estonia sinking....
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Class pass
(Photograph) - Picture by Sam Atkins. A rugby computer programme designed by John Duckles (above), a sports science and physiology graduate from the University of Leeds, is being used by some of the...