Paris, 30 May 2002 The Brussels section of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the aid organisation active in more than 80 countries, is at the forefront of international aid groups using satellite...
The Warburg Institute Library, part of London University's School of Advanced Study, has received the first $1 million (£684,000) award from the new Dan David Prize. The library was recognised for...
Students are carrying out experiments using an expensive piece of chemical engineering equipment via the web, thanks to collaboration between scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Soccer experts at Leicester University have compiled a web resource on the World Cup that provides facts and figures on almost every aspect of the tournament. Researchers at the Sir Norman Chester...
Sussex University has asked us to point out that its strategic review, currently under way, is not focused on cutting jobs and that there is no target number for job losses, contrary to a report in...
MPs will offer the government stark choices on student funding, with higher tuition fees, a steeper interest rate on loans and graduate contributions among the likely options. Barry Sheerman,...
Young blood was transfused into the education department this week with the appointment of former student leader Stephen Twigg and ex-policy adviser David Miliband. Mr Twigg, 35, a former president...
Daresbury Laboratory's bid to secure its future by building a world-leading light source has received a crucial vote of approval. After successful peer review, the chief executives of the research...
Lecturers at Salford University are threatening to withhold exam results after it emerged this week that compulsory redundancies are being considered to ensure that 70 jobs are axed by September. A...
* Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties, writes Caroline Davis. The arts, engineering and science faculties will remain unchanged but medicine will be split into medical...
Scientists have found that a rare component of air could prevent some of the most common forms of brain damage. The protective powers of xenon were revealed by Mervyn Maze, professor of anaesthetics...
Anna Thomson meets June Purvis, a champion of the study of feminism trying to foster a 'collective voice'. June Purvis, professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth, is an...
Electronic publishing is big business, but Helen Davies believes the death of the textbook is greatly exaggerated. In the 1990s, claims were rife that William Caxton's "boke" - or in today's jargon...
Graham Taylor says the new copyright licence won't mean 'free beer, no police' What do we know of how students study or want to study? The answer, it seems, is remarkably little, and it is perhaps...
I was 16 and studying ancient Greek, the only person in the year. "My lower-VIth class," the teacher called me without a hint of humour. She towered above me at her high desk, while I dutifully sat...