Polyglot loo excites Euro team
Researchers at the Technical University in Vienna together with colleagues at the University of Dundee are developing a voice-activated toilet for the elderly and disabled. The "Smart Toilet" adapts...
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Bologna plan divides Swiss
Relations between Swiss students and university planners are under strain over a perceived lack of consultation in implementing the Bologna reforms. There have been several public confrontations...
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Spin-offs aid Nordic funds
Nordic universities are turning to the private sector in an unprecedented attempt to raise research funds. Staff, students and governments from Iceland to Finland generally oppose student fees as a...
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Paris
France's new minister of youth, education and research is philosopher Luc Ferry, while Francois Loos, a centre-right UDF member of the national assembly, is junior minister for higher education and...
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Beijing
The Chinese ministry of education has promised to widen college recruitment, assist poor students through loans and improve business-backed campus services. Student numbers will reach 16 million by...
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Scientists go to law over RAE scores
Environmental scientists are planning to overturn their poor showing in the research assessment exercise through the law courts. A number of university departments are hoping a judicial review could...
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Welsh most likely to study away
A significantly lower proportion of Welsh higher education students study in their own country than their peers in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, figures for 1999-2000 from the Welsh...
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Call for Scots to develop renewable energy
Universities Scotland has suggested setting up a Scottish centre of excellence in renewable energy to underpin a potential £14 billion industry. It has sent a report to the Scottish Executive and...
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Support for St Andrews to regain MD powers
The deans of Scotland's medical schools and the Scottish Executive this week told the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee that they back draft legislation restoring St...
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Top scientists back high-yield farming
Three hundred top scientists have signed a petition backing high-yield farming as a means of protecting uncultivated land. Among the signatories are two Nobel peace prizewinners, Norman Borlaug and...
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Shefc group to offer advice on leadership
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has set up a group to advise on improving leadership and management in Scotland's 20 higher education institutions. The nine-member group, agreed in...
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Don's diary: watch that cow
Friday An early start for Chennai, via Newcastle, Heathrow and Dubai. I am spending a week in southern India on behalf of the Sterling Group, an informal aggregate of 23 UK engineering departments...
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Rough with the smooth
Rough Science , the BBC2 programme in which scientists complete challenges using the most basic tools, returned to the airwaves this week. But the series - which aims to attract people to study...
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Halfwits?
Speaking at last week's launch of the panel of research council heads, RCUK, trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt gave an insight into how the government might have arrived at its 50 per cent...
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No nonsense
The University of Cambridge's internal standards watchdog, the board of scrutiny, has highlighted a flaw in Cambridge's online consultation on reforming its ancient governance structures. The...