Video lectures sent to mobiles
Coventry University is broadcasting lectures straight to students' mobiles so they don't have to get out of bed in the mornings. Lessons are filmed with digital cameras, edited down into 15-minute segments, then sent to students with 3G phones. Media Production tutors Harold Fricker and Eduardo Carrillo hope to offer the service, currently being piloted, to their 200 students at no extra cost from October. They believe it could be used all over the world. Mr Fricker said: "There are always lazy students, despite most being dedicated to the course and committed to working hard.
The Daily Mirror, The Sun
Ambassador to warn against languages cuts
The Czech ambassador to Britain is to highlight the threat faced by the University of Glasgow's modern languages department when he visits the city tomorrow. Hundreds of workers at the university face the sack in a bid to stem operating losses of £7 million this year. But Stefan Fule will use an address to university leaders to warn against cutbacks in languages at British universities. The department at Glasgow is under threat after being classed as a lower priority following a strategic review.
The Scotsman
University in legal fight over spin-out tech patents
Glasgow University has entered into a three-way legal battle over technology created by one of its growing band of collapsed spin-out companies. University lawyers last week contacted Bryan Jackson, liquidator of the medical device developer Audiomedix, to stake a claim for patents that were acquired by a director before the company collapsed.
The Scotsman
University College Hospital opens
London's new "super hospital" has enjoyed a final scrub before it fully opens its doors to new patients. The £420 million University College Hospital has 16 floors, PCs at every bed and a huge intensive care unit. The building replaces the existing Middlesex and University College hospitals and will bring medical and teaching staff under one roof.
The Evening Standard
Cambridge students mark end of term in extravagant style
Cambridge University students will pay hundreds of pounds to celebrate the end of term in traditional style over the next two weeks, a survey shows. Pairs of tickets for annual May Balls can cost more than £300. According to the university newspaper Varsity , diners will be treated to an “sumptuous banquet designed by chef Marco Pierre White on the banks of the river Cam".
The Scotsman
Transitive makes its mark in Silicon Valley
Transitive, a small computer software spin-out from Manchester University, has begun to attract the smart money in California's Silicon Valley after developing a solution to one of the computer world's thorniest problems - the inability to run the same software applications on more than one type of computer. Last week Transitive emerged as a key behind-the-scenes contributor in Apple's high-profile decision to switch from using IBM to Intel computer chips.
The Financial Times
Letter
Regarding university fees forcing UK students abroad.
The Daily Telegraph
From the weekend's papers:
Saturday
- The Government is to spend millions of pounds on the fees of EU students who will compete with British teenagers for places at UK universities. The Daily Telegraph
- Prince William has graduated with a 2:1. The Times
- Letter regarding student intakes at Harvard and Cambridge. The Financial Times
Sunday
- The PM's son is to stand for election to the ruling body of Oxford University's Labour Club. The Mail on Sunday
- The number of mature students is growing, despite the punishing financial burden. The Mail on Sunday
- A woman jailed for smuggling heroin has just completed a degree at Oxford. The Observer