Masters to benefit German teachers
A new masters degree at Berlin's Free University is aiming to improve the job prospects of new teachers in Germany. It tries to give teachers an international perspective and hands-on training in a...
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Millennium project a runaway success
Halfway into its life, the Universite de Tous les Savoirs, France's millennium celebration of learning and knowledge, has been hailed as a huge success. So far, more than 70,000 members of the public...
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Brno tipped to gain Pounds 70m campus
Plans for a medical and science park in Brno - the Czech Republic's second city - are likely to win government backing later this year. Jiri Zlatuska, rector of Masaryk University in the city,...
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Lecturer strips off to mark exam
An exam in civil engineering is an unlikely situation in which to encounter the examining professor emerging, soaked to the skin, from an improvised shower stall. For Alessandro Del Bufalo, a civil...
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SVG advance
Adobe Systems has released a scalable vector graphics (SVG) viewer, a browser extension that enables current versions of popular web browsers to render SVG. The Adobe SVG Viewer is included with...
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NZ carrot offered to peg fees
New Zealand's Labour/Alliance coalition has promised universities and other tertiary sector institutions a 2.3 per cent increase in government subsidies next year in return for an assurance that they...
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Envy of Africa falls into crisis
Once the envy of its neighbours, Zambia's tertiary education sector is now in the midst of a severe crisis that threatens to undermine chances of equitable social and economic development....
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Dons roused anti-Mugabe camp
Outspoken academics in Zimbabwe were at the forefront of opposition to Robert Mugabe's government in the crisis-torn months preceding last weekend's elections. They played a key role in generating...
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Council to oversee region
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have set up an inter-university council for East Africa to coordinate higher education in the region. The three states have contributed $925,000 (Pounds 615,000) towards...
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Scots tie Sino knot
The University of Abertay, Dundee is set to build up expertise in doing business with China, just as the World Trade Organisation has decided to grant the country full membership. Abertay has signed...
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Manchester University
Manchester University's bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Board is for a Centre for Anglo-Saxon studies, not a Humanities Research Institute as reported in The THES of June 9.
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Bristol University
* Bristol University has asked us to point out that Sir John Kingman remains vice-chancellor until the end of August 2001. On the Move, page 8
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E-learning so far fails to deliver
Australian universities are unlikely to be affected in the short term by foreign institutions offering online learning, according to a new report. There are few signs of successful virtual...
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Arts renaissance in hi-tech fast lane
Arts graduates are in demand among the cutting-edge technology companies of Canada's west coast, where the image of the taxi-driving philosophy student is being shattered by pioneering work-study...
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Creating space for knowledge economy
Companies and universities of the future will need to radically reshape their work spaces to survive and thrive, according to a leading business academic. The keys to this reformation are to be found...