Space odyssey
Fari Akhlaghi describes the launch of an MBA in facilities management. Last year Sheffield Hallam University launched an MBA programme in facilities management. Already it is able to boast 33...
搜索
-
-
The big squeeze
Institutions must wake up to pressures on space, says Paul Roebuck. Universities have been behaving as if the rise in student numbers was akin to an invasion of lemmings. They have paid scant...
-
The trouble with timetables
Squeeze a balloon one way and it expands another. Alan Bowles reflects on how to fit the courses in. Animals mark their territory and defend it to the last in order to survive. Similar ancestral...
-
Promotions
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Readerships: John Baily, former senior lecturer, reader in ethnomusicology; Christopher Baugh, senior lecturer, reader in drama; Christopher Jenks, senior...
-
Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF LUTON Trevor Kletz, a visiting fellow in the chemical engineering department, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL...
-
Events
Primates and Man The Royal Society and The British Academy are holding a discussion meeting on "Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man" on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4 and 5 (...
-
Awards
College of North West London The gold medal award given by the Building Employers Confederation was presented to Frank Horan, head of the college's built environment and construction department.
-
Appointments
Four independent directors have been appointed to the board of the Higher Education Quality Council: Kenneth Dixon, deputy chairman, Bass plc and pro-chancellor and chairman of the Council of the...
-
Splitting image
Alan Ryan asks if America can attend to the difference of its many peoples and still preserve a single ethical, political culture. When I was very much younger, political theory rotated around...
-
'Students take more professional approach'
"It has been a long haul," says Xavier Testar, assistant professor of biology at the University of Barcelona, of education reforms. Lecturers at the university, a vast institution with 68,400...
-
Estate strategies hit the big time
Two years ago, the funding councils told all higher education institutions to prepare estate strategies. The reason was to improve the management of property resources and to satisfy the councils...
-
Foresight spots key technologies
More than 20 widely applicable or "generic" technologies, including business process engineering, optical technology and software engineering, have been identified from the work of the Technology...
-
Patents threaten research
Medical research is being undermined by flaws in the patent laws which prevent scientists having access to the data they need, according to researchers from the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex...
-
Murder protests close university
The University of Botswana has been closed indefinitely following student protests at apparent government failure to investigate the ritual murder of a school student. The minister of education,...
-
Off-the-self sociology
Communitarianism has caught the imagination of politicians across the political spectrum. But can its founding father, Amitai Etzioni (above), be all things to all men - and, more importantly, women...