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In my recent article 'UKeU - Peeling the Onion - Layer 2', I highlighted how, despite the obvious tensions between the former UKeU Chairman/Chief Executive and the HEFCE leadership, both sides seemed to be asserting some continued, but as yet unrealized, value in the UKeU platform. Not according to an earlier OBHE (subscription service) news […]

The House of Commons Education and Skills inquiry into UKeU continues with John Beaumont the former Chief Executive and Sir Anthony Cleaver, the former UKeU Chairman before the Commitee (21 July 2004). Today, I do a bit of transcript analysis, focusing particularly on the UKeU platform. Unlike my previous article there is no streaming video […]

Here is the transcript (uncorrected evidence) of the proceedings of the recent House of Commons Education and Skills Committee session in which David Young and Sir Howard Newby of HEFCE provided evidence about UKeU to the Committee. This supplements my article UKeU: the Movie. The video and transcript of yesterday's session (21 July 2004) is […]

The Education Guardian online reports today (21 July 2004) on the robust defence put up by John Beaumont, former Chief Executive of UKeU and the former Chairman, Sir Anthony Cleaver, to the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee. The Guardian reports that: Sir Anthony Cleaver has “… absolutely no qualms about the process or […]

The BBC's use of the Web as another dissemination vehicle continues to impress. This morning there was a short piece broadcast about the bonuses paid to some of the UKeU directorship. Click more if you're interested. I know the BBC's 'listen again' facility is good but I was prepared to have to search for the […]

The next stage of the UK Parliament's Education and Skills Committee inquiry into UK eUniversities Worldwide (UKeU) happens on the 21 July. The ESC Future Meetings site shows that it's the turn of the UKEU's former Chairman, Sir Anthony Cleaver and the Chief Executive John Beaumont to be in the hot seat. I suspect that […]

In a comment added to my own Auricle article MPs attack e-university bonus payments I drew attention to the UK Parliament's video streaming service which transmits many of the proceedings of our legislature. Because no sacrifice is too great for our Auricle readership I sat through the whole 2 hours 14 minutes of the evidence […]

Another polemic on UKeU by Donald MacLeod in yesterday's higher education section of the Guardian site based on a report of yesterday's (23 June) House of Commons' education committee interrogation of Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the funding council HEFCE, and his chairman, David Young. It's all getting terribly tacky really. I'm sure that […]

HEFCE's press release of 18 June is short but more informative than previously. It seems that £12 million of the £62 million originally allocated for UKeU is going to be used: “… alongside other funds, to support the development of e-learning in universities and colleges.” One of the notes in the press release should be […]

According to a couple of articles in yesterday's Education Guardian a UK Parliamentary Committee is to investigate the demise of UK eUniversities Worldwide (UKeU). There's more, so if you're interested read on! Adding further to the pain is a BBC News article which reports the views of Dr Ian Gibson, the chair of the Commons […]