Famous cinema negatives get a positive revival
Some of the great masterpieces of the golden age of Italian cinema have been painstakingly restored and can now be projected in close-to-original quality, thanks to Italy's National School of...
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Y2K bug heads for tardy US computers
In the United States, most institutions have made preparations to head off the millennium computer bug, with one notable exception - universities. According to a US department of education report, at...
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Storm force
(Photograph) - Storm force: Graham Field and Paul Spugeon have been developing Lego Mindstorm kits that enable children to build robots from bricks, including a central intelligence brick with its...
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Leeds puts BBC staff online to MA
The BBC has hired the University of Leeds to help train its managers in digital media. Leeds has developed an MA in media management, to be taught partly over the internet, designed to help middle-...
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Internet deal improves access to journals
Twelve leading scientific and scholarly publishers are collaborating on a reference-linking initiative that will change the way scientists use the internet for research. The initiative will allow...
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Northeast cashes in on access money
* A consortium of universities in the Northeast has secured Pounds 1.7 million from the Higher Education Funding Council to encourage more young people to enter higher education.
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Warwick teams up for net venture
The University of Warwick has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States to launch a business management centre that will specialise in electronic commerce. The $40 million centre...
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Dental training gets megabytes
A two-year dental training partnership project that uses video, computers and the web to deliver course material any time, any where has been launched in Manchester. The DentalTec project is a...
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Lawyer warns Scots of intellectual property minefield
A specialist lawyer has warned Scotland's universities to guard against complacency over the ownership of potentially lucrative ideas from staff and students. Fiona Nicolson, who heads the...
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Drop in on Hackney
Residents of the London borough of Hackney can now refashion their local environment online. The borough's sites have been captured on an interactive website - a collaboration between the Hackney...
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New Network head
Cliff Allan, head of the teaching and learning group (policy division) at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been appointed programme director of the new Learning and Teaching...
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RNIB launches website
A website providing a range of information for blind and partially sighted students has been launched by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The site features specialist technology with large...
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Bob a job
Graduates hunting for jobs could earn a Pounds 250 bonus if they register at a new recruitment website and subsequently land a job. A powerful search engine at Bob (best of the best) enables...
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COOL business
Sheffield Hallam University has received Pounds 1.4 million worth of software licences for specialised development of e-business solutions. The licences from Sterling Software's application...
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Cell science
The University of Naples and Telecom Italia have launched a masters in cellular telephony. The course is for economics, law and engineering graduates and aims to probe the legal, economic and...