Flagship sets naval standard
Napoleon once described the port of Antwerp as a dagger that he would aim at the heart of England. Today, the city's maritime activities remain important after the establishment of a world-class...
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Student victory in fight for the right to free bus rides
Several thousand Moldovan students who last month took to the streets of the capital, Chisinau, have won a number of valuable financial concessions from the local authorities and the government. Not...
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Interns vote to call off dispute
France's trainee doctors this week called off industrial action over hours and working conditions that had hit many of the country's teaching hospitals in the past few weeks. Talks with Martine Aubry...
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Cyber Patrol halts student
The maker of a popular software program aimed at protecting children from questionable websites has settled out of court with a Canadian student who not only deciphered the program but let the world...
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Project tackles system crashes
A multimillion-pound joint research project to help prevent potentially disastrous computer failure in global stock markets has been launched. City University is joining forces with the universities...
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Americans offer $100 million grant to help Africa exploit the internet
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan hopes the offer of more than $100 million (Pounds 64 million) in grants for African universities from four prestigious American philanthropic organisations...
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Australia sees tech future with India
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
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Rules will take up time but may not improve subjects
The benchmarking statements for 22 subjects just produced by the Quality Assurance Agency (back page) are not easy reading. But no one can claim that they have been wished on academe by a hostile...
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Growth in demand will change business supply
Business and management course suppliers will have to adapt to the growing shortage of top educators, predicts Paul Danos The booming global economy demands well-trained and confident business...
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QAA publishes 'tick boxes'
The new quality assurance system set out for universities this week is "dangerously prescriptive" and could mean, in effect, a national curriculum, say its critics. The Quality Assurance Agency has...
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'Checklist' of student skills: QAA area guidelines
Benchmarks cover 22 subject areas, ranging from six pages for accounting to 32 pages for law. They make explicit the "techniques and skills" expected of graduates and "the intellectual demand and...
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Rector tries to block state plans for campus
The rector of a university in La Paz, the Bolivian capital, is threatening legal action to block government plans to open a new university on terms that he claims breach constitutional guarantees of...
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'Scrooge' spending on UK staff
United Kingdom spending on academic staff is among the lowest in the developed world, the Association of University Teachers revealed today on the eve of its annual council meeting, writes Phil Baty...
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Birzeit
The Islamic An Nahdah party won the student council elections at Birzeit University last week with 1,388 votes (22 seats) over the pro-Fatah Jerusalem Bloc, which secured 1,0 votes (20 seats).
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Sources for research funding
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ RSE/index.htm Wellcome Trust Research Workshops The Royal Society of Edinburgh invites applications for grants of up to Pounds 2500 in support of...