Brussels, 12 Sep 2002 Representatives from the European Commission's Information Society DG will take part in the world's largest trade fair for books, multimedia and communications in Frankfurt,...
Last week's article "Search for the formula to put spark in science" incorrectly stated that the University of Essex had shut its maths department this year. The university is reviewing its provision...
Put everyone on DNA database, expert says A database holding the DNA profile of the entire British population could be the fairest way to help solve crime and yet protect civil liberties, Sir Alec...
Fears that former vice-chancellor Ken Edwards has been forced into a twilight life in computer repair were raised at the University of Leicester this week. The computers provided this week for...
Job swaps for the boys: while Tim O'Shea ups sticks from London to take over as principal of Edinburgh University next month, the previous incumbent, Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, is heading south,...
Forget the Boat Race and the Varsity Match. The higher education sports event of the year takes place tomorrow at Bath University, where the football team has already gone further in the FA Cup than...
The hunt for outstandingly obscure journals has upset readers conversant in Esperanto. A number contacted us after the Australian publication Esperanto sub la suda kruco was nominated, informing us...
A good week for rock music. Not only has Elvis been recruited to attract students to a theology course, Rock of Ages, at Trinity College, Carmarthen, by studying his lyrics, but Noddy Holder and his...
Amateur astronomer Steve Reid has created his own observatory out of an old septic tank. Mr Reid paid £3.50 for the second-hand glass-fibre sphere that was once connected to a toilet. He cut it in...
Universities must wake up to the challenge from rival sources of higher education, writes Peter Coaldrake Over the past two decades, in almost all Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
The University of Wi****ersrand has protested at the failure of organisers to involve it in security arrangements for a meeting to be addressed by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres. South African...
Universities across the developed world need to respond to student complaints, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development study suggests. The study, part of the OECD's programme on...
A student aid fund set up for families hit by the September 11 attacks has handed out almost $1 million (£640,000) in loan relief and scholarships over the past ten months. More than 50 partners of...
News Colleges go deep into higher education territory Features Hello out there: Colin Pillinger asks if there is life on other planets Vive la union : European universities link up to create joint...
A year after the September 11 terrorist attacks, US students consider international educational exchanges significantly more important than they were before that date, says an Institute of...