World Bank to initiate change
The race for higher education has proved so hard for countries in sub-Saharan Africa that the World Bank is reviewing its education programmes in the region. The average university enrolment rate is...
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Sweet and sticky
(Photograph) - Sweet and sticky: Wendy Jacob's Squeeze Chaise Longue, which, when inflated by a second person, will gently clasp the reclining art-lover. It faces Marmalade Wall, a 48ft-high work by...
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Ontario opens the door to private universities
Canada moved one step closer last month to establishing a competing system for the country's public universities, when its biggest province paved the way for private universities. Despite protests...
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Scotland leads way with e-workshops
Two pioneering Scottish projects in communications and information technology have linked up to create a ground-breaking international e-workshop that aims to draw up best practice in online tutoring...
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Wheels that can help bag Munros
Personal links between higher education and a therapeutic community centre for people with disabilities have resulted in designs for a wheelchair capable of navigating hill paths. Kenneth Montgomery...
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Langue de Lancaster
Web experts from Lancaster University's department of computing are helping companies to develop their online shopping services. Parisian department store Galeries-Lafayette is looking to Lancaster's...
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Remote control
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has hailed an internet-based initiative as revolutionising access to lifelong learning in remote areas. Mr Stephen has...
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Saving grace
Theft of intellectual property is an issue that has exercised the minds of universities' information administrators for much of the past decade. Now American company Vyou.com has developed a...
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Forward in reverse
Ingenta, one of the UK's top 20 web services and a world leader in creating online knowledge communities, is reversing into the AIM-listed Delyn Group plc. Users of ingenta are provided with a broad...
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Mentor mode
A major factor in non-completion of degree courses identified by start-up company MBAMentors is a lack of adequate mentoring support. The company's new website provides services aimed at providing...
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OU goes Dutch
Thirteen further education colleges in the Netherlands are planning a joint venture with the Open University. The Hogescholen, which offer vocational and technical training, are suffering from a lack...
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Streaming ahead
BT's Learning Stream broadband service, aimed at further education colleges, libraries, citizen's advice bureaux and schools, has been given the green light by telecoms watchdog Oftel. BT competitors...
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Global group is close to deal with multinational
Universitas 21, the global network of research universities, is expected to announce next week that it has established formal links with at least one international corporation to provide higher...
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The academics' life of 'grunge' is a threat to future
Among the first 23 fellowships awarded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are a handful to academics (pages 20-21). These have gone not to young people with talent and a...
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Reaching out to make society just
David Blunkett unveils a seven-point plan to bring more people from all backgrounds into higher education. At the University of Greenwich earlier this year, I spelt out my determination that the...