W3C maths release
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. MathML 2.0, an XML application, provides encoding mathematical notation and...
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Pioneers leave trail to follow
The 29 postgraduate students on Form-Ami, an innovative course in advanced multimedia and information technology, are truly at the cutting edge. As pioneers in the European Commission's initiative to...
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Global trade could profit all, given the political will
The internationalisation of education services has yet to receive the detailed attention foreshadowed by the World Trade Organisation more than two years ago. A focus on macroeconomic policy,...
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Latest UK news
Academics fill ranks of people's peers Edinburgh University vice-chancellor Sir Stewart Sutherland and former government chief scientist Sir Robert May are among the first 15 “people’s” peers. Also...
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Latest international news
Austrian tenure talks falter Talks between the Austrian government and university teachers over plans to restrict academic tenure have broken down. The government believes new employment conditions,...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom will fall by 700,000 over the next 10 years, according to a Warwick University study commissioned by the government. BMW yesterday...
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Higher education appointments
University of Strathclyde Ian Smith will succeed Douglas Weir as dean of the faculty of education. Leslie Sheldon , director of the English language teaching division at the University of Strathclyde...
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Higher education awards
University of Strathclyde Neil McGarvey , politics division, has been awarded the United Kingdom Public Administration Consortium Essay Competition - the prize, an expenses paid visit to Athens to...
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Students sleep while dads toil
As Britain's university sector strives for mass participation, Patricia Walker warns of a system where more means less. With more than 1,200 universities and junior colleges, and 3 million students,...
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Why I ... recommend semi-retirement
As the nights grow longer and the prostate region begins to creak, many of us look enthusiastically at early retirement. In my own case, the prospect of turning into a man of leisure was somewhat...
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Uncreative friendship
The relationship between the university and commerce poses a threat to long-term innovation, argues Jonathan Rutherford. "In the knowledge economy," prime minister Tony Blair declared recently, "...
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Life in a smoker zone
Volcanic spires thatspew superheated toxic chemicals deep in the Indian Ocean are home to some of the earth's strangest creatures. Steve Farrar reports. A swarm of ghostlike shrimps billowed out of...
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How to survive the high life
Altitude sickness is caused by an increase in capillary blood pressure in susceptible individuals, a study has revealed. The research by Marco Maggiorini and colleagues at Zurich University,...
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Wild grass is a threat to birds
In the 1930s, planting the hardy grass Spartina around Northern Ireland's coastline was seen as an ingenious way to protect the shore against erosion. But now scientists at the University of Ulster...
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Cutting edge: David Caplin
The discovery of a new superconductor leads to sleepless nights in Seattle and a surfing frenzy in Los Alamos. Superconductivity is one of nature's more exotic phenomena - perpetual motion in action...