Study entente set to continue
Canada and the European Union have announced six new joint university teaching projects, at a time when their education officials are negotiating an extension to the agreement that funds such...
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Rector dispute fuels fee strike
MEXICO CITY Students who have been instrumental in closing down the National Autonomous University of Mexico for the past seven months in a dispute over tuition fees have accused the government of...
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Rally as Turks head for EU
ISTANBUL The decision at the Helsinki summit to recognise Turkey as a candidate for European Union membership has prompted nationwide demonstrations against a ban on the wearing of religious...
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US goes Y2K 'nuts'
BOSTON A public college in Wisconsin is under fire for spending $130,000 (Pounds 208,000) on a millennium disaster plan that includes stockpiling enough food, fuel and water to sustain 500 people for...
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Minister backs health plans
DUBLIN Irish education minister Michael Martin has backed proposals for radically changing the training of health-care professionals. If the proposals are implemented, they would mean that students...
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Serb staff stay away after third murder
PRISTINA The rectorate at the University of Pristina stands empty two days a week - reserved for the Serb rector and his staff, who never come. In contrast, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the...
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Paris to get lion's share of massive millennium spend
PARIS France will invest E7 billion (Pounds 4.4 billion) in higher education over the next six years to develop research, new technologies and university-business links, renovate campuses and improve...
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Smart mast created
Intelligent masts that warn sailing crews when they are about to snap have been created by a team of British scientists and engineers. The carbon composite mast has optical fibre sensors and...
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Open letter warns against new rank for researchers
ROME A group of senior Italian academics has written an open letter to university minister Ortensio Zecchino warning against plans to eliminate the job definition "researcher" in state university...
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System will supplant keyhole surgery
Physicians may soon no longer be looking through the keyhole when they perform microscopic surgery, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Advances in virtual reality mean that a surgeon's narrow views of the human...
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Confidence in net grows
Advocates of lifelong learning will find comfort in a study from British Telecommunications and Futuremedia. The research shows that the overall growth in internet and intranet use is encouraging...
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New TV habits
The television programme Ages of Avatar gives users the chance to explore a new media form - Inhabited Television. Four virtual worlds are open on the web alongside a television programme , broadcast...
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Start-up motor
Business students at three United Kingdom universities are taking part in a competition to build a multi-million-pound company. Students at the London School of Economics, London Business School and...
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Harvard sues for its name
Harvard University is going to court under the recently enacted cyber-piracy law in the United States to prove internet rights to website addresses that contain its name. The university is suing to...
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6 days and counting...
Should scientists play God by creating life? Colin Humphreys, a Christian, says that depends on what they do with it. The American scientist Craig Venter recently proposed creating life in a test...