Backbench supporters of the Australian government have been lobbying prime minister John Howard to dump education minister David Kemp. Dr Kemp has proved to be one of the most unpopular ministers. In...
A coherent national information resource for universities to replace the "mindless serendipity of the web" is being rolled out this year under the guidance of the Joint Information Systems Committee...
Hugh Cormican, managing director of the Belfast-based company Andor Technology, one of Queen's University's most successful spin-off businesses, has won a national physics award for transforming...
The intricate and sometimes destructive nature of art restoration is being tackled in a project on digital retouching techniques, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Nick Frayling, a PhD student working on the...
Western nations are facing a shortage of millions of professional information technology workers, according to researchers at Monash University in Melbourne. The researchers have called on the...
British academics will be advisers to Regents College, America's leading "virtual university". Its president, C. Wayne Williams, was in London last week to sign an agreement between the college and...
A new image for Britain's higher education in highly competitive overseas markets was launched this week as part of the strategy to meet the government's aim of 75,000 extra overseas students in...
A Department of Trade and Industry task force aims to find out how new technology and new organisations will alter teaching and learning by 2020. The group has been set up by the information,...
University links with industry and improved vocational skills are the two keys to improved economic performance, science minister Lord Sainsbury told a conference this week, writes Alan Thomson. Lord...
Small businesses in Leeds and Bradford will soon be able to send employees to brush up their skills on a free course at Leeds Metropolitan University, funded by the European Social Fund. Businesses...
Writers in interactive media working in film are often undervalued, according to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Bafta will examine tensions between creative professionals in the new...
Stirling University has won a European Union competition to be the only United Kingdom partner in an Pounds 845,000 project to help promote a learning culture among small and medium-sized businesses...
Malmo University, Sweden's newest venture in higher education, has chosen a web-based library automation system, Millennium, to replace its present system. The system uses Java-based client software...
Some trends that will shape the 21st-century university are already visible and it is on these that the Department of Trade and Industry Foresight task force on learning in 2020 (page 17) will base...
The government's reforms of higher education funding aim to widen opportunities and generate further resources, argues David Blunkett As the last century progressed, the Left learned to distinguish...