EU rift over digital text rights stifles medium
The future of European legislation to decide whether United Kingdom universities have the right freely to copy digitally stored texts is in the balance this month, with European Union member states...
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Equality target
An Argentine education ministry internet project, which aims to reach more than 11 million students at the country's universities and schools, is expected to take off in August, writes Domenico...
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Wait is over
Searching the web has become a frustrating task - slow and unreliable. xrefer.com addresses this problem with the web's first reference engine. The company aggregates and integrates well-known...
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Nothing ventured...
A sparkling idea and clear business plan could provide a quick cash injection for budding entrepreneurs at the Oxford-based Venturefest 2000 this summer. The best business plan entered for the...
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Cosmic movement
A new computer school, the first of ten planned for greater London, has been set up by Indian computer group Cosmic Software and three British entrepreneurs. The "E-horizons" school, which...
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Well woven
Helen Whitehead, a cyberspace writer in residence at Nottingham Trent University, has won funding for a project aimed at bringing together East Midlands textile workers and textile museum staff to...
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Life on Earth
Plymouth University has won a Pounds 10,000 research and development grant from the Wellcome Trust's SciArt competition for a project that will examine Earthlings' intelligence. Researchers from the...
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Wireless backing
Global network solutions company Nortel Networks has financed a new A$4 million (Pounds 1.5 million) technology centre investigating wireless internet applications based at the University of...
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Trent seeks graduates with ambitions
Entrepreneurs are being offered the chance to translate their ideas into a successful enterprise thanks to a programme launched by Nottingham Trent University. The university is seeking 25 East...
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Caught out
(Photograph) - Caught out: Anthony Horne, a first-year student on the University of Abertay Dundee's pioneering BA in computer arts, is captured on the projection at a futuristic exhibition of...
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Quicker A-level results would aid admissions
Peter Lampl's Sutton Trust (unlike sundry government ministers) knows its onions when it comes to discrimination in university admissions. It has identified bias in favour of privately educated...
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Watch out: assessment power struggle is about
Historians are worried about the slowly expanding powers of the Quality Assurance Agency. Anthony Fletcher explains why. The History at the Universities Defence Group has sent vice-chancellors,...
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Pensioners must guard fund from employer raids
When the Universities Superannuation Scheme replaced the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities it was one of the best schemes around. But time moves on. Memory of the difficulties caused...
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Sectarianism divides
As the government's spending review has progressed, Tom Wilson of lecturers' union Natfhe has been spearheading a campaign for the redistribution of funding from old universities to new. This is...
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Hindu students
Parita Mukta is under the impression that the literature of the National Hindu Students Forum (not federation as she states) is anti-secular and gender biased, based on reference to our "Beware"...