Japanese fear evaluation plan
Japan's political crisis is unlikely to affect reform of the country's national universities. Consultations on semi-privatisation plans for the 99 national universities, which have no independent...
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Nordic plan for shared research
Universities in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Finland and the land Islands should collaborate more closely and create joint centres of excellence in research and...
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Unesco post is still vacant
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation still has no head of its education directorate, a position that has been vacant for more than six months. Koichiro Matsuura,...
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Czech institute wins US credit
A training ground for the new generation of Eastern European economic chiefs has become the first postgraduate school in the former Soviet bloc to gain a United States stamp of approval. Prague's...
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Libraries in digital pact
Representatives of 20 national and research university libraries in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Britain, Italy and the United States have agreed to collaborate on digitising library collections. The...
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Test bed
The Alba Centre, which houses Scotland's collaborative Institute for System Level Integration, is about to expand to include a European test technology centre. Scottish Enterprise is working in...
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Eritrea online
Plans to link the University of Asmara in Eritrea, the only African country not on the internet, were announced last week by Estifanos Afewerki of Eritrea's ministry of transport and communications....
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Under the hammer
Phillips Auctioneers is to fund two posts in Glasgow University's unique programme in decorative arts. The programme aims to boost practical, academic and curatorial skills in dealing with historic...
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Creative fusion
Supinfocom, a Valenciennes school specialising in advanced computer graphics and graphic design, last week played host to 3,000 digital students and professionals at the second European Gathering of...
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High impact
Computer simulations have revealed that a vast region of the Yucat n peninsula, Mexico, may have behaved like a fluid during the formation of the Chicxulub impact crater, according to research from...
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Images of Ulster conflict go on web
A local amateur photographer's unique images of Londonderry's experience of the Troubles are now available on the internet through the University of Ulster. The photographs are part of a larger...
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Paris court backs email privacy
A French court has established a legal precedent by ruling that emails between individuals are confidential, like other forms of correspondence. The court ruled that it is illegal for a third party...
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Popular game gets UK launch
A more challenging version of the fastest-selling independent board-game in the United States has been unveiled at Heriot-Watt University by its creator Richard Tait. Mr Tait, who studied computer...
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Bank gambles on Oxford spin-offs
Oxford University has clinched a commercial deal to fund its new £60 million chemistry building. In the arrangement, believed to be the first of its kind, European investment bank Beeston Gregory...
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Ideas gap spurs DTI to act
The "knowledge gap" between companies and academics means that businesses in the United Kingdom are missing out on up to 5,000 potentially lucrative ideas, according to the Department of Trade and...