Aberdeen University has won £1 million to launch a training package in e-commerce technology in September. The computing science department has attracted funding from the Engineering and Physical...
Students who are the first in their families to go to university will be helped by a new online service launched last Friday by Manchester-based entrepreneur Anthony Wilson. The uni4me project is the...
Budding entrepreneurs in Spain have gone off the internet. Ninety per cent of ideas presented to investors at business school IESE's New Business Forum in Barcelona last year were e-businesses. This...
The launch of SuperJanet4 means the first stage of the high-speed network's transformation from a higher education research tool to the backbone of a national e-learning grid has been completed....
A new biotechnology innovation centre owned by the Royal Veterinary College is to offer accommodation for up to 20 companies in central London. The London BioScience Innovation Centre, at the Camden...
The Institute for System Level Integration (which brings together the engineering and computing expertise of four Scottish universities) has been given $500,000 (£350,000) of software to make its...
Nottingham Trent University is strengthening its bid to become a "truly entrepreneurial university" by appointing an enterprise company with a board of business leaders. The company, to be known as...
The aims of science and business frequently clash. David Packham calls for an improved code of practice. Earlier this month, the government announced that £15 million of public money was to be made...
Poverty is leading to mental illness among students and robbing them of an enriching experience, says Denise Meyer. Poverty is leading to mental illness among students and robbing them of an...
By Anita Sharda, Policy adviser, sociologist and former equal opportunities officer at the University of Hertfordshire. Over the past year, I have been an independent member of the home secretary's...
The government's student-funding policies have plunged new universities into crisis, lecturers' leaders and university managers claimed this week. Six universities have been placed under emergency...
NEWS Fit for work: Hefce publishes the first employability indicators. Social inclusion: the Scottish university principals' pledge card FEATURES Noreena Hertz asks whether exercising our democratic...
UK split in student numbers People under 21 in Scotland and Northern Ireland are more likely to go to university or college than under 21s in the United Kingdom. More than 40 per cent of them entered...
We wish to point out that Leicester University student Shahid Hussain ( THES , March 23) did not, as we said, quote Benjamin Franklin as having said: "There are two certainties in life - death and...
Next week sees judgement day on graduate employability when funding chiefs publish their latest performance indicators. Education secretary David Blunkett is keen to identify which universities and...