Scottish teaching to get Pounds 1m boost
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is launching a Pounds 1 million initiative to help improve the quality of teaching in Scotland's 21 higher education institutions. In a thorough analysis...
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Scruffy but clean
Congratulations to colleagues of Alfredo Moscardini of Sunderland University on helping him to escape arrest at Gatwick airport earlier this year. He was handed over to police by a fellow traveller...
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Pulpit posties
Reverend Iain Whyte, an Edinburgh University chaplain, demonstrated that the Church always manages to pip politicians to the post when it comes to financial scandal. Speaking during a debate on...
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Sun, sea rocks!
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has stressed how important quality assessment reports are in helping students choose a university. And not a moment too soon, judging by an article in...
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Crepes not tapes
One poverty-stricken student, at least, remembers what good food tastes like. Stefan Birch, a hospitality management student at Napier University, has won the Scottish Cookery and Food Association...
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Saturday shopping
The most controversial statement at this year's Natfhe conference in Torquay came not from a delegate or speaker but from the mayor of Torbay. In her opening speech she said: "I see there are a lot...
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Campus to net locals Pounds 200m
The planned university campus in the heart of the Docklands area of London could be worth at least Pounds 200 million to the local region over a 20-year period, according to an economic impact study...
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Deans back medics' call for special treatment
Medical school deans are backing a call from their students for the chance to borrow larger amounts of money from the Student Loans Company, writes Olga Wojtas. The University of London Union medical...
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Bellamy sees red over green centre
Environmentalist David Bellamy is lending his support to a campaign to persuade Edinburgh University not to axe its unique centre for human ecology. The university court meets on Monday to consider...
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Peers protest at threat to academic freedom
Peers joined forces with vice chancellors last week to fend off a new threat to academic freedom. Members of the House of Lords used the second reading of the Disability Discrimination Bill on Monday...
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Fragmented Figures exhibition
(Photograph) - Iffy about the butt:reception officer Ivan Abbott inspects an exhibit by sculptor Neale Andrew, showing as part of the Fragmented Figures exhibition which runs until June 10 at...
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Pounds 6m summer bonus for six
Half a dozen higher education institutions are likely to share the Pounds 6 million on offer for pilot programmes testing the use of the summer semester. Only around ten bids to explore the...
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On the Internet
The THES Internet service caries details of the contents of this week's newspaper including all job advertisements, quality assessments for teaching and research and other information. It is...
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Cash injection
Aberdeen University has won Pounds 300,000 from the international pharmaceutical group Glaxo Wellcome for a diabetes laboratory within its new institute of medical sciences, which will bring together...
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Ex-lecturer to head troubled college
Derby College Wilmorton has appointed a former lecturer as principal. David Croll left the college in 1983, before it was re-organised as a tertiary college and before the high-profile inquiry which...