Higher Education
- Digital Library
Database are now accessed through the Digital Library.
- Ariadne
Ariadne is aimed at librarians and information science professionals in academic libraries, but is also relevant to the UK higher education community - Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Education Unlimited: Higher
Online equivalent of the Guardian's Higher Education Supplement - Internet Resources Newsletter
Items of interest to academics in science, social science and engineering, produced at Heriot Watt U - Times Educational Supplement
Electronic version of the weekly TES - Times Higher Education Journal
- Varsity Online
- British Educational Communications and Technology agency [BECTa]
- Copyright Licensing Agency
- Department for Education and Skills
- Department of Education for Northern Ireland
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
- Higher Education Statistics Agency
- Joint Information Systems Committee
JISC provides funding for networks and innovative systems in Higher Education - National Union of Students
News, information and advice from the NUS - Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
The QAA was established in 1997 to provide an integrated quality assurance service for higher education institutions throughout the UK. It brings together the functions of the former Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC) and the quality assessment functions of the HEFCE and HEFCW - Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
- Society of College, National and University Libraries [SCONUL]
Also contains advice on copyright issues - UK Research Councils
Strategic partnership of MRC,AHRC,BBSRC,EPSRC,ESRC,NERC,STFC - Universities UK
Formerly the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the UK
- BBC: Education League Tables
(from BBC News, these have in the past rated Universities by three weightings: social inclusion, drop-out rates, and research. Here's the1999 rating for Anglia Ruskin. Currently, there are only Social Inclusion and Drop Out rates for 2000) - Braintrack
Links to Universities, Polytechnnics and Colleges around the world. Searchable or browseable Bullet Point - Community of Science
Leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. - Education League Tables: RAE 2008
(the ratings for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise conducted by the Department for Education and Learning. Easy to read summary of the rating for Anglia Ruskin. ) Bullet Point - HERO - Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK
The official gateway to the UK's universities, colleges and research organisations Bullet Point - Higher Education in the 21st Century
The Government's response to the Dearing Report - Higher Education in the Learning Society - Dearing Report
Full report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by Sir Ron (now Lord) Dearing - Jobs.ac.uk
Run for and by the UK academic community, has vacancies around the world. Search by keyword or browse by discipline - RAE 2008
RAE, Research Asssessment Exercise - Studentzone
Site for students in higher education - Tomlinson Inquiry - Interim Report
- UK Higher Education Institutions -- active map
Sensitive Map of UK HE sites, from the University of Wolverhampton - UK Lifelong Learning
Official site for the encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning. UK Lifelong Learning is supported by the Individual Learning Division of the Department for Education and Skills
- JISCmail
The National Academic Mailing List Service, hosts email discussion lists for the UK academic and research communities. This replaced Mailbase in 2000. Many also have searchable archives - The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
Vast searchable database of email discussion groups compiled by Diane Kovacs and team