Prints will come
Recent work by printmaker Sue Gollifer, who heads the Computers and Teaching Initiative centre for art and design at the University of Brighton, will be shown at the Colville Place Gallery (+44 171...
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Network for UHI
Workplace Technologies has been appointed to provide the essential communications infrastructure for Scotland's University of the Highlands and Islands, using technology from Cisco Systems. The...
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Green links
LEARN (Link Environmental and Academic Research Network) launched a website (www.swcl. org/learn/) on Wednesday that allows organisations to "commission" research from university and college students...
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IT2 equals more cash for long-term US research
Information technology research in the United States was this week singled out for a $366 million, or 28 per cent, budget boost. Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Alone among friends
Lecturers are trying to encourage students to take responsibility for their study. But do students understand the changes that are taking place? asks Olga Wojtas The past decade has seen a dramatic...
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Pounds 20 million for 24 hours in Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan University has spent Pounds 20 million on a flexible learning centre offering 24-hour access to multimedia and other learning services. Most of the facilities at the Yorkshire city...
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Essex awards bright ideas
Essex University has announced awards in the first round of its Pounds 25,000 annual teaching and learning innovation fund. Projects will receive backing of up to Pounds 5,000 to buy staff teaching...
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Napier flexes minds
Napier University has set itself the goal of providing off-campus teaching for 10,000 students by 2008. It has adapted a software system for discussions between students and tutors under its Napier...
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Self-improvers get on the web
Dundee University students are being encouraged to use the web to sharpen their skills for study and work. A new university intranet website, Advance@ Dundee, aims to provide multidisciplinary...
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Chatline in virtual classrooms
Is online learning a lonely, isolated business or is the internet a friendly technology that builds virtual classrooms with human contact? The email exchange between Open University tutor Robin...
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Italians suggest cash-raising scheme
Universities could cash in under plans to fund research projects through the issue of Eurobonds. Centre-left politicians in Italy have suggested that cash could be raised by the sale of bonds issued...
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Dons prepare for contracts battle
Oxford dons are squaring up for battle over the future of the collegiate teaching structure at the university, as constitutional changes are thrashed out this term. Two issues, "with huge impact on...
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Universitas 21 is to expand
The Universitas 21 global group of universities is set to expand and has invited the University of California at Berkeley to join. Berkeley is still discussing the invitation, according to a spokes-...
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Chemical weapons laws to be tightened
Academic lawyers and biologists are attempting to plug a yawning gap in international conventions outlawing chemical and biological weapons. They want to open global discussions on a new convention...
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Bringing the old bones to life
Time Machines - Dinosaur Impressions