Judge supports lecher
The Spanish sport of street piropo was in the dock last week on a charge of sexual harassment. A waiter successfully fought his dismissal for telling his female colleague that she had "a cute bum",...
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Protest at office closures
More than 100 German and British academics have launched a bi-national petition protesting against the British Council's plans to close four regional offices in Germany - Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig and...
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Roads to Europe open up for Serbia
Serbian universities took the first steps towards reintegration into Europe last week. Thirty-seven academics from the countries' universities met in Belgrade with the administrators of European...
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EU and Russia woo Belarus
The ironies of East European politics were played out last week when European Union representatives met in one part of Minsk to talk about greater unity with Belarus while in another part of the city...
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Bear essentials for Arctic study
The professor from Florida was puzzled. As postgraduate students arrived at the university refectory for lunch, they hung their rifles next to their coats. "You allow your students to carry rifles...
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Colleges give a 'C' to A to F state guide
American universities whose business it is to rate their students on performance found the tables turned when a private, non-profit research organisation evaluated them for the first time. The state-...
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Eyewitness: Ottoman history revisited
The fall of Constantinople to the marauding Turks was one of the darkest days in Christendom, heralding centuries of oppression and bloody rule by Islamic forces. That is, at least, how many...
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World View: Who can you trust online?
The US and Japan need to boost public confidence in e-business if it is to thrive, writes Dorothy Zinberg What constitutes trust in everyday life? One of the no-answer topics on which one can...
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World watch
Ashghabat President Saparmyrat Niyazov of Turkmenistan has doubled all student grants in honour of the fifth anniversary of his country's neutrality. University students will receive 412,000 manats (...
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Designing a car that will keep on going
What will the car of the future look like? It is impossible to say for sure, but hopefully it will be cheaper, safer and more efficient. A research project at Lancaster University began with a game...
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Young Business Achiever of the Year
Michelle Mone, Young Business Achiever of the Year and designer of the revolutionary Ultimo gel bra, lent her support at the launch of Glasgow Caledonian University's Caledonian Business School. The...
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Map winner
Digimap, the vector mapping service provided by Edina (Edinburgh Data and Information Access) has won the Association for Geographic Information's Award for Technological Progress for 2000. Digimap...
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Richer access
The University of the West of England is to instal Hyperion, the latest digital media archive sub-system, to add to its Unicorn Collection Management System. The installation will support the...
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Italian style
An estimated 20,000 unemployed university graduates in Italy's economically depressed south will be offered six to 12-month training courses in fields connected to new technologies and the new...
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Forward partner
Heriot-Watt University has agreed a new commercialisation partnership with a private technology and management company that it believes is unique in Scotland. The Forward Group will not only provide...