Argentina confronts dropouts
Argentina will introduce legislation to restrict student entry to the country's universities. Rising student dropout figures, overcrowded lecture halls and saturated labour markets, especially in...
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Weather wise collects £12,500 prize
The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but what about the rain in the Thames Valley? Farmers, insurers and others need to know, and a start-up company from Reading University's Centre for...
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NCR-Abertay link-up pays off for students
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is joining forces with information technology giant NCR to encourage more software engineers to study and work in Scotland. To mark the launch of the partnership,...
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Text gets downgraded in multisensory world
Higher education is facing a cultural crisis as young people grow up with increasingly multisensory systems of communication, an expert has warned. Walter Stewart, director of global marketing,...
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Digital radio service to keep old young
Global digital radio networks offering "sound vitamins" for the elderly could help slow ageing. An international research project funded by the European Union has been launched to test a system that...
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Ulster first bears fruit
Ulster University has teamed up with Greenmount College of Agriculture and Horticulture to offer Northern Ireland's first degree programme in information technology tailored for the agricultural and...
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Tales of urban life revived
Academics researching city life will find many out-of-print or hard-to-find texts, some republished for the first time in 30 years, at an online academic archive of urban writing and images launched...
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Students link via UK hub
Southampton Institute's business school is at the hub of an international network of students that spans Mexico, the United States, Finland and Ukraine working on marketing projects. The scheme...
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Scots create retail chair
Glasgow Caledonian University has created the first Scottish retail chair in partnership with Scotmid, one of the country's leading co-operative chains. Caledonian Business School has appointed...
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Alliance joins RDA for growth
A strategic alliance including the nine universities in the Yorkshire and Humber region has been launched in collaboration with Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency. The universities...
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APU scoops health prize
Anglia Polytechnic University has won a national prize for innovation in work-based learning. The New Learning Opportunities Award, sponsored by NIACE, the national organisation for adult learning,...
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Web reveals five kingdoms
The Public Record Office has launched Uniting the Kingdoms? , a web guide to England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and France from 1066 to 1603 www.pro.gov.uk/utk/utk.htm
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Judge joins Unicon ranks
The Judge Institute, Cambridge University's business school, has been admitted to full membership of Unicon - the International University Consortium of Executive Education. Unicon was founded in...
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W3C maths release
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. MathML 2.0, an XML application, provides encoding mathematical notation and...
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Pioneers leave trail to follow
The 29 postgraduate students on Form-Ami, an innovative course in advanced multimedia and information technology, are truly at the cutting edge. As pioneers in the European Commission's initiative to...